Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The condition of being a vassal.
- noun The service, homage, and fealty required of a vassal.
- noun A position of subordination or subjection; servitude.
- noun The land held by a vassal; a fief.
- noun Vassals, especially those of a particular lord, considered as a group.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being a vassal or feudatory; hence, the obligations of that state; the service required of a vassal.
- noun Servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery.
- noun A territory held in vassalage; a fee or fief.
- noun Vassals or subjects collectively.
- noun Preëminence, as of one having vassals; hence, valor; prowess; courage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being a vassal, or feudatory.
- noun Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery.
- noun A territory held in vassalage.
- noun rare Vassals, collectively; vassalry.
- noun obsolete Valorous service, such as that performed by a vassal; valor; prowess; courage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being a
vassal .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of a serf
Etymologies
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Examples
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The whole world shall be in vassalage to me, but it shall be a vassalage of peace.
Goliah 2010
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The whole world shall be in vassalage to me, but it shall be a vassalage of peace.
Goliah 1910
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The whole world shall be in vassalage to me, but it shall be a vassalage of peace.
Goliah 1910
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"I am glad to learn of your humility and pleased to know that I need not call your vassalage to your memory, but I fear that in the darkness you have less regard for either than you now pretend in the light of day."
The Strong Arm Robert Barr 1881
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My preceding letters, dearest mother, have enabled you to form some idea of the Hebrew vassalage, which is one of the peculiarities of Egypt.
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The absorption of the Danelaw by Wessex left the Celtic fringe in Scotland and Wales independent under a vague kind of vassalage to the king.
616-80 2001
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The occasion of this cession was probably some league of mutual defence against the Franks, which Cassiodorus could without dishonesty represent as a kind of vassalage of Burgundy to Ostrogothia.
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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He told the French ambassadors a month after the arrest that Barneveld had been endeavouring, during and since the Truce negotiations, to bring back the Provinces, especially Holland, if not under the dominion of, at least under some kind of vassalage to Spain.
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1618 John Lothrop Motley 1845
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He told the French ambassadors a month after the arrest that Barneveld had been endeavouring, during and since the Truce negotiations, to bring back the Provinces, especially Holland, if not under the dominion of, at least under some kind of vassalage to Spain.
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1614-23) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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He told the French ambassadors a month after the arrest that Barneveld had been endeavouring, during and since the Truce negotiations, to bring back the Provinces, especially Holland, if not under the dominion of, at least under some kind of vassalage to Spain.
Life and Death of John of Barneveld — Complete (1609-1623) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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