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Meanings of villein in English
Usage of villein in English
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.
6
But if the villein alienates before the lord enters, he alienation is good.
7
The villein suddenly halted in front of a thick wooden door.
8
Every man, free or villein, could send his sons and daughters to school.
9
But there were other serious inconveniences about the condition of the villein or native.
10
Besides, lad, your English villein differs from your French serf.
11
If the manor was sold, the villein was sold as a part of the manor.
12
The power still flourishes, only it is the villein who takes tithe of his lord.
13
His right to the land, in fact, was not freehold, but tenure by villein socage.
14
A freeman who married a villein lost his freedom.
15
The free man still had a place in court proceedings which the unfree villein did not.
16
A villein could be forever set free from servitude by his lord as in this example:
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