单词 | serfdom |
释义 | serfdomn. a. The state or condition of a serf, bondage. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > serfdom > [noun] churldomc1386 villainyc1386 bondshipc1440 servage1523 villeinage1531 culvertage1613 serfage1816 serfship1830 serfdom1850 unfreedom1884 1850 E. B. Browning H. Powers's Greek Slave 10 Break up ere long The serfdom of this world! 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. 13 Thus serfdom had merged into free servitude. 1865 J. Bright Speeches Amer. Question 29 The present Emperor of Russia..has insisted upon the abolition of serfdom in that empire. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. iii. 87 The Tories were far from being all oppressors, disposed to grind down the working classes into serfdom. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 12 June 8/1 Exactly one hundred years ago (June 13, 1799) the last survival of serfdom in the United Kingdom was swept away by the Act which declared the colliers ‘in that part of Great Britain called Scotland’ free from the servile yoke under which for several centuries they had groaned. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 470 His soul is full of meanness and serfdom—the best elements in him are enslaved. 1876 E. Mellor Priesthood ii At length the laity sank into the most abject spiritual serfdom. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1850 |
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