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VILLEINESS. 209 VINAIGRETTE.
v^'llenage agenst the seid defendauntes. 1551 in J. S.
Leadam S^. Cases Crt. Requests (Selden) 58 To dyscharge
the vyllynage and Iwndage of the bloudde of the said complaynants.
1600 Holland Lh'y xli. viii. noi They that
were to leave such yssue at home, gave their children as it
were in viilenage to some Romane citi/en or other whom
they liked of. 1643 Milton Str^'. Salve 26 Reduced to the
terms of the Peasants of France, "of viilenage and slavery.
1699 Temple Hist. Eng, 59 The Children that were born of
these miserable People, belonged to tlie Lord of the Soil, ,
and thus began Viilenage in England. x8i8 Hallam Mid.
Ages (1872) II. 57 The viilenage of the peasantry in some
parts of Catalonia was very severe. 185a H. Rogers Eel.
Faith 418 Mr. Newman says that it was Cliristions, not
w/c«, that the Church sought to enfranchise; it little
matters; she sought to abolish all viilenage. 1866 Rogers
Agric. 4 Prices I. iv. 70, I do not doubt that the social
state of viilenage existed.
fig. 1590 Spenser F. Q. ii. xi. i No wietchednesse is like
to sinfull vellenage. 16134 Hieron Wks, I. 481 The continuall
gamster is, as it were, in the state of viilenage to his
humor. 1644 Milton Diz>orce 11. iti. 36, I spake ev'n now,
as if sin were condemn'd in a perpetual viilenage never to
be free by law, never to be manumitted.
p. 1589 Warner Albion^s England v. xxiii. loi Ihus
Eiiglands hope with Englands heire in one same Kark did
saile; When desprat from their viilanage was English bloud
of baile. 1607 Topskll Four-/. Beasts 449 For those
[ichneumons] that are ouercume in combates one with
aiK>thcr, are branded with a warlicke marke of Villanage,
or subiection to their Conquerors. 1700 Drvijen IVi/e
0/ BittWs T, 443 Their Glories shine ;
But Infamyand ViU
lanage are thine. 1761 [see Serf 2 bj. 1796 Moti&e. A mer.
Geog. II. 245 Joseph II rendered an essential service to
humanity, in abolishing the servitude or vilianage of the
peasants of Bohemia. 1841 ELfHiNSTONS Hist. Imi, II. 287
The original population., had.. been conquered and reduced
to a sort of villanage by certain Afghan tribes. 1876
FsECMAN Norm, Conq. xxiv. V. 480 While the churl sank
to the state of villainage, the slave rose to it.
V. 16^1 Tertnesdela Ao* 262 b, The division of Villeinage,
is villeine of blood, and of tenure. 183a Ht. Martinrau
Dftttei'ara Vu 22 Then came the bondage and villeinage of
the Gothic nations. 1873 Spkncer Stud. Sociol. v. 103 When
villeinage had passed away and serfs were no longer maintained
by their owners. iWq J^ssof}? Coming o/Frittrs\\.6t
•A man or woman born in villeinage could never shake it off.
3. The body of villeins; villeins collectively.
x8&4 Burton Scot Air. I. i. 31 The French peasantry or
villainage of the period.
Vi'lleiness. rare. [f. Villeik + -ess.] A
female villein.
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