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serfage|ˈsɜːfɪdʒ|
[f. serf + -age; cf. servage.]
1. = serfdom.
1775De Lolme Eng. Const. i. ii. (1784) 27 When the English villeins were freed from serfage. 1816Southey in Life (1849) IV. 204, I am now in a manner attached to the soil by a sort of moral and intellectual serfage. 1868Rogers Pol. Econ. ix. (1876) 87 Serfage was extinguished, and an influential class of yeomanry..arose. 1884Manch. Exam. 14 July 6/1 The political serfage of long generations. 1903Collins in Camb. Mod. Hist. II. xvii. 601 In Denmark they [the peasants] were obliged to have recourse to the practice of commendation, which ended..in a widespread system of serfage.
2. The body of serfs collectively, the serf-class.
1864Burton Scot Abr. I. i. 34 The wretched serfage who were driven into the field. |