Definition of Villanage. Meaning of Villanage. Synonyms of Villanage

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Definition of Villanage

Villanage
Villanage Vil"lan*age (?; 48), n. [OF. villenage, vilenage. See Villain.] 1. (Feudal Law) The state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord. [In this sense written also villenage, and villeinage.] I speak even now as if sin were condemned in a perpetual villanage, never to be manumitted. --Milton. Some faint traces of villanage were detected by the curious so late as the days of the Stuarts. --Macaulay. 2. Baseness; infamy; villainy. [Obs.] --Dryden.

Meaning of Villanage from wikipedia

- grants, have been either altogether or very nearly in the same state of villanage with the occupiers of land in the country. How the Commerce of the Towns...