'Villenage' definitions:
Definition of 'Villenage'
From: GCIDE
- Villenage \Vil"len*age\, n. [See Villanage.] (Feudal Law) Villanage. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'villenage'
From: GCIDE
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- I speak even now as if sin were condemned in a perpetual villanage, never to be manumitted. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Some faint traces of villanage were detected by the curious so late as the days of the Stuarts. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Baseness; infamy; villainy. [Obs.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'villenage'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolutism,
- adverse possession,
- alodium,
- bond service,
- bondage,
- burgage,
- captivity,
- claim,
- colony,
- control,
- de facto,
- de jure,
- debt slavery,
- dependency,
- deprivation of freedom,
- derivative title,
- disenfranchisement,
- disfranchisement,
- domination,
- enslavement,
- enthrallment,
- fee fief,
- fee position,
- fee simple,
- fee simple absolute,
- fee simple conditional,
- fee simple defeasible,
- fee simple determinable,
- fee tail,
- feodum,
- feud,
- feudalism,
- feudality,
- fiefdom,
- frankalmoign,
- free socage,
- freehold,
- gavelkind,
- having title to,
- helotism,
- helotry,
- hold,
- holding,
- indentureship,
- knight service,
- lay fee,
- lease,
- leasehold,
- legal claim,
- legal possession,
- mandate,
- occupancy,
- occupation,
- original title,
- owning,
- peonage,
- possessing,
- possession,
- preoccupancy,
- preoccupation,
- prepossession,
- prescription,
- property,
- property rights,
- proprietary rights,
- restraint,
- seisin,
- serfdom,
- serfhood,
- servility,
- servitude,
- slavery,
- socage,
- squatting,
- subjection,
- subjugation,
- sublease,
- tenancy,
- tenantry,
- tenure,
- tenure in chivalry,
- thrall,
- thralldom,
- title,
- tyranny,
- underlease,
- undertenancy,
- usucapion,
- vassalage,
- villein socage,
- villeinhold,
- yoke