Definition of villenage. Meaning of villenage. Synonyms of villenage

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Definition of villenage

Villenage
Villenage Vil"len*age, n. [See Villanage.] (Feudal Law) Villanage. --Blackstone.
villenage
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 villenage from wikipedia

- Serfdom was the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism, and similar systems. It was a condition of debt bondage...
- & Robinson. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-7624-3712-2. Vinogradoff, Paul (1911). "Villenage" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). pp. 81–84. This has a...
- retrieved 21 October 2021 (21 Hen, III) Coke, Edward (1628). "Cap. 2, Of Villenage". First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. p. 136 left (Sect...
- plain text (ASCII), from Wikisource.) Edward Coke (1628). "Cap. 2, Of Villenage". First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. p. 136 left (Sect...
- by Bankruptcy Repeal and Insolvent Court Act 1869 (Villainage) c. 18 Villenage may be pleaded, and a villein seised, though a Libertate probanda be depending...
- greatly to the benefit of the peasantry; another on 20 June 1788 abolished villenage and completely transformed the much-abused hoveri system whereby the feudal...
- of land in demesne, seven natives (or villains) holding five bov. in villenage." Harwell and Everton were part of the Hundred of B****etlaw (now B****etlaw...