The Collaborative International Dictionary
Villanage \Vil"lan*age\ (?; 48), n. [OF. villenage, vilenage. See Villain.]
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(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. Baseness; infamy; villainy. [Obs.]
--Dryden.
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n. (alternative form of villeinage English)
Usage examples of "villanage".
When that is done away with, and we return to the state of villanage, holding our tenement-houses, all to be of the same pattern, of the State, that is to say, of the Tammany Ring which is to take the place of the feudal lord,--the office of Register of Deeds will, I presume, become useless, and the dynasty will be deposed.