Crossword clues for vassalage
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vassalage \Vas"sal*age\, n. [OE. vassalage, F. vasselage, LL. vassallaticum.]
The state of being a vassal, or feudatory.
Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery; as, the Greeks were held in vassalage by the Turks.
A territory held in vassalage. ``The Countship of Foix, with six territorial vassalages.''
--Milman.Vassals, collectively; vassalry. [R.]
--Shak.Valorous service, such as that performed by a vassal; valor; prowess; courage. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from Old French vassalage, vasselage "the service of a vassal," from vassal (see vassal).
Wiktionary
n. The state of being a vassal.
WordNet
Usage examples of "vassalage".
In the south the chief feudatories were individually too strong to be held in a common vassalage.
Wealth and honors, the offices of the state, and the ceremonies of religion, were almost exclusively possessed by the former who, preserving the purity of their blood with the most insulting jealousy, held their clients in a condition of specious vassalage.
Growing impatient with the vassalage system, the Sultan subsequently had his prisoner strangled, reduced his kingdom to the status of a Turkish sandjak or province, and moved on against Vidin, capital of the western Bulgarian kingdom.
Knights Hospitaler can bring about the transformation of Jerusalem from vassalage to triumph again.
King of France, and his old compatriots from Poitou and the Limousin in the vassalage of his niece, the queen, had at last arrived to repair the situation and elevate the house of Poitou to that preeminence it might now easily acquire in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Verulam was mouthed in sacred whispers by wealthy housewives, all of them, by now, crack delegators, their homes thrumming empires of monosyllabic vassalage.
With his back to the wall, driven to bay by his former masters, Khemsa was fighting for his life with all the dark power, all the frightful knowledge they had taught him through long, grim years of neophytism and vassalage.
Inattention to this is what has called for this explanation, which reflection would have rendered unnecessary with the candid, while nothing will do it with those who use the former opinion only as a stalking horse, to cover their disloyal propensities to keep us in eternal vassalage to a foreign and unfriendly people.
Moreover, many tribes took this occasion of the trouble of the Aztecs to throw off their allegiance or vassalage, and even if they did not join the Spaniards, to remain neutral watching for the event of the war.