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Meanings of vassalage in English
Synonyms
Examples for "serfdom"
Examples for "serfdom"
1
In Eastern Europe, Mamluk Egypt and Ming China, serfdom was effectively restored.
2
In the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg, serfdom was not abolished until 1819.
3
He promised to abolish serfdom and to give them a free pardon.
4
They're stamping a nation's very features with the hopeless lineaments of serfdom.
5
China rejects the criticism, saying its rule has ended serfdom and brought development.
Usage of vassalage in English
1
The vassal of Otho had reduced the successor of Otho to vassalage.
2
The vassalage of the poor has ever been the favorite offspring of aristocracy.
3
The nobles were determined to reduce the middle classes to vassalage.
4
Ferdinand declined the token of vassalage, and raised him graciously from the earth.
5
My husband feigned this vassalage that he might deceive you the more readily.
6
Twenty-five years of vassalage bow me before her and fill me with silence.
7
Perhaps I had thought that this bit of vassalage would give her pleasure.
8
This was not an act of vassalage, but a payment for public duties.
9
The more the queen spoke, the more complete became the vassalage of her guest.
10
Indeed, vassalage had been the unhappy condition of Judah since the death of Josiah.
11
Week after week went by, and we were kept in a state of vassalage.
12
At length he was about to enjoy the fruits of his humiliation and vassalage.
13
Like his unfortunate father, was in a state of vassalage.
14
France had formed a plan for reducing Holland to vassalage.
15
They have a nice eye to detect shades of vassalage.
16
It was a choice between vassalage, serfdom, or destruction outright.
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