vassalage
- noun
- /ˈvæsəlɪdʒ/
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vasallaje
- Tying Hgni to the Gjúkung dynasty by blood rather than vassalage avoided overextending the cast of characters beyond the family and opens up alternative narrative possibilities for his character.
Examples
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Where the bonds of vassalage may not bind him, the bonds of brotherhood will, and he, too, never fully pits his will against his brother's, but always capitulates when his brother insists, as, for example, with the murder of Sigurðr.
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During the feudal period, the relationship between lord and vassal often involved mutual obligations and duties, defining the nature of vassalage.
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It was imposed upon us by another nation while we were yet in a state of colonial vassalage.
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Nor does the concept of vassalage translate well into early medieval Icelandic society, which had no such formal system of social hierarchy.
Academic text (2018) -
The two Koreas are poster children for what happens when Asians are under Western vassalage versus being left to their own Kim Jong Mugabe devices.
Blog text (18) -
"The two Koreas are poster children for what happens when Asians are under Western vassalage vs. being left to their own Kim Jong Mugabe devices."
Blog text (18) -
At this site, Theophilus renounces Christ and Mary and establishes formal vassalage with a "carta firme" (785b740b).
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Capitalism had already discarded the narrow sociopolitical and economic constraints of vassalage and serfdom; socialism promised an end to those of wage labor, perhaps even of nationalism.
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Seminoles, just like the other so-called Five Civilized Tribes, adopted slavery, but in Florida, as has often been noted, this system was more akin to vassalage than the more rigid slavery regimen practiced elsewhere.
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The farmers worked under conditions of vassalage, paying tribute to the lord in exchange for the use of his land.
Synonyms
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8.9
To be forced to work for and obey another person like a slave
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8.6
A state of being controlled and treated like a slave by another person
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9.4
A system where peasants are legally tied to a lord's land and have few rights
A condition where peasants are tied to the land and under a lord's control
A condition in which a farm worker must live and work on a lord's land and cannot leave
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Vassalage comes from vassal, a word that once meant a 'young man' or 'servant' in old Celtic and medieval French because a vassal was someone who served a lord and received land or protection in return. So vassalage is the state of being a vassal, living under another's rule and serving a lord.