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n. [ OF. villenage, vilenage. See Villain. ] 1. (Feudal Law) The state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord. [ In this sense written also villenage, and villeinage. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I speak even now as if sin were condemned in a perpetual villanage, never to be manumitted. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some faint traces of villanage were detected by the curious so late as the days of the Stuarts. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Baseness; infamy; villainy. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Villanelle. ] A ballad. [ Obs. ] Cotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Villanelle [ It., a pretty country girl. ] (Mus.) An old rustic dance, accompanied with singing. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse of the first stanza alternating as the third verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close. E. W. Gosse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. of villa; formed on the analogy of the French. ] A small villa. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Villanized; p. pr. & vb. n. Villanizing ] To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to revile. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Were virtue by descent, a noble name
Could never villanize his father's fame. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who villanizes. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. adv., n., See Villainous, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]