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.
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.
