vassalage
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Vassalage is nevertheless ceasing throughout the kingdom, and with it will pass away that sordid avarice which every modification of slavery is calculated to produce.
From Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by Wollstonecraft, Mary
Vassalage, too, acquired a greater consistency at this period, and its rules began to crystallize.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
Vassalage I know is a word which bears no favourable acceptation in this liberal age; and slavery is in worse repute.
From Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society by Morley, Henry
Uyeno, in Toyko, 377 Uyesugi, family, 321 V Vassalage, 80, 153, 212, 214, 240, 294ff.,
From An Introduction to the History of Japan by Hara, Katsuro
