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Synonyms for Vassalage:
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n.
• captivity • servility • servitude • slavery Other relevant words:
- Bond service ,
- Enthralment ,
- Feudality ,
- Helotism ,
- Helotry ,
- Villenage ,
- absolutism ,
- captivity ,
- conquest ,
- control ,
- courage ,
- debt slavery ,
- demesne ,
- dependence ,
- dependency ,
- disenfranchisement ,
- disfranchisement ,
- domination ,
- drudgery ,
- enslavement ,
- enthrallment ,
- feudalism ,
- fief ,
- immurement ,
- imprisonment ,
- incarceration ,
- indentureship ,
- internment ,
- involuntary servitude ,
- peonage ,
- prowess ,
- restraint ,
- seigniory ,
- serfhood ,
- subjugation ,
- thraldom ,
- thrall ,
- thralldom ,
- tyranny ,
- valor ,
- vassal ,
- villeinage ,
- yoke .
- Servileness ,
- bullwork ,
- chains constraint ,
- committal ,
- committals ,
- durance ,
- durances ,
- impoundment ,
- impoundments ,
- indenture ,
- internments ,
- menial labor ,
- serfdom ,
- servility ,
- servitude ,
- subjection ,
- subjugations .
What are the hypernyms for Vassalage?
A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
Other hypernyms:
allegiance, bondage, feudalism, obedience, service, servitude, subjection, subjugation, subordination.
What are the opposite words for vassalage?
The word "vassalage" is a term that refers to the state of being a vassal or a person who is in a subordinate position to a lord or ruler. In contrast, some possible antonyms to this term could include words such as independence, freedom, autonomy, self-rule, and sovereignty. These terms describe the idea of having control over one's own life and decisions, without being subject to the authority of someone else. While vassalage may have played a significant role in historical societies, the antonyms to this term reflect the value that many people place on personal liberty and the right to self-determination in our modern world.
What are the antonyms for Vassalage?
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n.
• captivity • servitude • slavery
Usage examples for Vassalage
The British had exercised so much oppression and rapacity over all those who would not join them, and so much insolence over those who did, and were in the least suspected, that the people of South Carolina found there was no alternative but between a state of downright vassalage and warfare.
"A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion"
The inhabitants of it were generally of Irish extraction; a people, who at all times during the war, abhorred either submission or vassalage.
"A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion"
"There are dependent souls who, for want of the necessary strength to escape from vassalage to the external impressions will always drag on, feeble and opprest by the exactions of a mental servitude from which they can not free themselves.
"Common Sense Subtitle: How To Exercise It"
Famous quotes with Vassalage
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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.
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Submission is wholly a vassalage term, repugnant to the dignity of freedom, and an echo of the language used at the Conquest.
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