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villainage
or vil·lan·age
[ vil-uh-nij ]
villainage
/ ˈvɪlənɪdʒ /
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Vinogradoff, Villainage, 149, gives a few instances of its occurrence; but it seems to be very rare.
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Villainage as an institution continued to exist and to characterize the position of the mass of the peasantry.
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They who were born in villainage, were born to an inheritance of labour, but not of inevitable depravity and wretchedness.
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The minor law books of the thirteenth century follow Bracton in this identification of villainage with slavery.
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As to the general aspect of villainage in the legal theory of English feudalism there can be no doubt.
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