Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
serfdom .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Serfage.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of a serf
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Examples
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This man was a Socialist, and since an Anarchist; yet his highest idea for woman was serfhood to husband and children, in the present mockery called “home.”
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They clung to it amid sufferings too shocking to dwell on; [9] they clung to it under such a serfhood as made the rapacity of their conquerors interested in retaining them on the soil.
Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Thomas Osborne Davis 1829
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Though separated, Marisol and Wena are united by memory of their mother and a dream of freeing oneself from serfhood to take up an independent pettybourgeois life - the dream of millions.
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Though separated, Marisol and Wena are united by memory of their mother and a dream of freeing oneself from serfhood to take up an independent pettybourgeois life - the dream of millions.
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