serfdom

serfdom
Synonyms and related words:
abjectness, absolutism, attendance, baseness, bond service, bondage, captivity, control, debt slavery, deprivation of freedom, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, domination, employ, employment, enslavement, enthrallment, feudalism, feudality, helotism, helotry, indentureship, meanness, menialness, ministration, ministry, peonage, restraint, serfhood, servility, servitium, servitorship, servitude, slavery, slavishness, subjection, subjugation, submissiveness, subservience, subserviency, tendance, thrall, thralldom, tyranny, vassalage, villenage, yoke

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  • Serfdom — Serfage Serf age, Serfdom Serf dom, n. The state or condition of a serf. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • Serfdom Patent (1781) — The Serfdom Patent of 1781 (German: Leibeigenschaft ) aimed to abolish aspects of the traditional serfdom system of the Habsburg lands through the establishment of basic civil liberties for the serfs.The feudal system bound farmers to inherited… …   Wikipedia

  • serfdom — noun see serf …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • serfdom — noun a) The state of being a serf. b) The feudal system that includes serfs. Syn: serfage, serfhood …   Wiktionary

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