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.