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Meanings of helot (helots) in English
Synonyms
Examples for "serf"
Examples for "serf"
1
The chief causes of the rise of the serf were the following:
2
But the same could be said of every serf in the kingdom.
3
In 1220, scarcely a serf was to be found in all Flanders.
4
Apparently a lot harder than a feudal serf of the Ancien Regime.
5
He paused in mid stride, eying the escaped serf up and down.
1
A ditch-full of witches could not bring such tokens to a villein.
2
And if he be a villein, he shall lose his right hand.
3
The villein did too, his beefy hands frozen on the wooden handles.
4
There will no longer be servants or masters, or villein or lord.
5
The master of a household was responsible for every villein in his household.
Usage of helots in English
1
Yet their force, including the Tegeans and helots, was fifty-three thousand men.
2
Why, just a narrow, jealous race-hatred which makes helots of British men.
3
We must not imagine that all the helots had joined in the revolt.
4
These strikers were helots, unorganized scum; the regular unions-bycomparison respectable-heldaloof from them.
5
The humbled Mexicans sink into the condition of wandering helots.
6
Under Pausanias we have seen before that the helots were already ripe for revolt.
7
Slaves are never without traitors; and the ephors learned the premeditated revolution from helots themselves.
8
He was a helot in the great hunt of helots that the masters were making.
9
I think Russia agreed to it because they're having a revolt of the Slavic helots.
10
The "deterring" example of the helots had therefore very little effect.
11
Forty million helots awaited their liberator the rebel leader.
12
In Greece and Rome the righting was done by freemen, the labour by helots and bondsmen.
13
Have they forgotten that the held helots?
14
The Spartans were able to devote themselves to martial pursuits because they possessed a large number of serfs, called helots.
15
Their whole position, if it could not be compared with that of slaves, could be compared with that of helots.
16
Are they, in their turn, to become helots, after having vainly striven so long to make helots of the others?
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