(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." "Some faint traces of villanage were detected by the curious so late as the days of the Stuarts."
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