Villanage

Full definition of villanage

Noun

1. Alternative form of villeinage
• 1854, Henry Rogers, The Eclipse of Faith Chapter , Even during the Dark Ages, even in its most corrupted form, Christianity wrought for the practical extinction of serfdom. Mr. Newman says that it was Christians, not men, that the church sought to enfranchise; it little matters; she sought to abolish all villanage.