Villein

Word VILLEIN
Character 7
Hyphenation vil lein
Pronunciations /ˈvɪleɪn/

Definitions and meanings of "Villein"

What do we mean by villein?

One of a class of feudal serfs who held the legal status of freemen in their dealings with all people except their lord. noun

See villain.

See villain, 1. noun

A feudal tenant. noun

(Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord noun

A feudal tenant.

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The word "villein" in example sentences

Vinogradoff and others have conclusively established that there was not a real difference in status between the so-called villein regardant and villein in gross, and that in any case the villein was not properly a slave but rather a serf. [ ❋ Various (N/A)

The investigation of Paul Vinogradoff and others have conclusively established that there was not a real difference in status between the so-called villein regardant and villein in gross, and that in any case the villein was not properly a slave but rather a serf. [ ❋ Various (N/A)

"villein" was real property and in the same case as land: also that when Parliament came to legislate so as to make lands in the American ❋ Various (N/A)

Could she truly be so shallow as to be drawn to a weak-minded, contemptible villein better suited to walk behind an ox plowing fields than dare to lift his eyes to a queen? ❋ Lucy Weston (2011)

From magnate to baron, from workman to villein, from publicist to court agent and retainer, will be changes of state and function so slight as to elude all but the keenest eyes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The villein villages till the soil among them, and pay their communal dues together, though every man has his dwelling and his cattle and his fair share of the land. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I can think of three explanations for the “villein” claim in the Triads: ❋ Carla (2009)

As a villein is an unfree peasant or serf, this is unlikely to be literally true. ❋ Carla (2009)

In addition to this legislation, landowners began to enforce their manorial privileges strictly, making certain that they received their full amount of "villein dues, and in particular labour obligations" (Saul, 60). ❋ Unknown (2007)

We read of Mogg, daughter of a villein peasant and Jack, her half-wit brother, who save the family cow from the clutches of the lord. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The first night of the nuptials of the daughter of his villein belonged to him without dispute. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Regan's exclamation ( "How now, you dog!") and Cornwall's ( "My villein!") both reflect their astonishment at the source of the intervention: not one of Gloucester's servants (for they are, after all, in Gloucester's house) but one of their own. ❋ Greenblatt, Stephen (2007)

Harry Talvace is the younger son of a noble family, schooled at Shrewsbury Abbey with his childhood friend and foster-brother Adam, son of a villein* stonemason. ❋ Carla (2006)

Only neither the villein nor the farm labourer starved, when the master was a man like Sir Ector. ❋ Abigail Nussbaum (2005)

A villein, if Cadfael knew one when he saw one, with abilities above his station, and some private anguish, maybe more than one. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1992)

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