Vil'lan-age, n.
n. [O. Fr. villenage, vilenage, Pr. vilanatge, Sp. villanage, Pg. villanagem. L. Lat. villanagium, villenagium, villanaticum. See VILLAIN.]
Sense 1. The state of a villain; base servitude; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord. [Usually written villenage or villeinage.]
I speak even now as if sin were condemned in a perpetual villanage, never to be free by law. Milton.
Some faint traces of villanage were detected by the curious so late as the days of the Stuarts. Macaulay.
Sense 2. Baseness; infamy; villainy. [Obs.]