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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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}.]
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I speak even now as if sin were condemned in a
perpetual villanage, never to be manumitted.
--Milton.
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Some faint traces of villanage were detected by the
curious so late as the days of the Stuarts.
--Macaulay.
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2. Baseness; infamy; villainy. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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