villanage

English

Etymology

villan +‎ -age

Noun

villanage (countable and uncountable, plural villanages)

1. Alternative form of villeinage
   • 1854, Henry Rogers, The Eclipse of Faith‎^[1]:

     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.