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Definition of "vassalage" []

  • The condition of being a vassal. (noun)
  • The service, homage, and fealty required of a vassal. (noun)
  • A position of subordination or subjection; servitude. (noun)
  • The land held by a vassal; a fief. (noun)
  • Vassals, especially those of a particular lord, considered as a group. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "vassalage" in a sentence
  • "The whole world shall be in vassalage to me, but it shall be a vassalage of peace."
  • ""I am glad to learn of your humility and pleased to know that I need not call your vassalage to your memory, but I fear that in the darkness you have less regard for either than you now pretend in the light of day.""
  • "My preceding letters, dearest mother, have enabled you to form some idea of the Hebrew vassalage, which is one of the peculiarities of Egypt."