serfdom in English

noun

slavery, indenture, bondage; status of serfs, standing of servants

Use "serfdom" in a sentence

1. It has reduced us politically to serfdom.

2. The serfs were liberated after abolishing serfdom.

3. In a third he concentrated on serfdom.

4. the abolition of serfdom in Russia in 18

5. These privileges were the legal basis for serfdom.

6. The serf owners safeguarded the feudal serfdom with savage punishments.

7. Serfdom stifled both collective and individual initiative among the peasantry.

8. Was the pressure to abolish serfdom and slavery then economic?

9. Serfdom, indenture, slavery, and the caste system all served this end.

10. Abolitionist critics of the policy called it no better than serfdom.

11. Now the savage system of serfdom in Xizang has been ended.

12. Peasants under serfdom tended to be forced to fulfil their obligations.

13. Reform in 1861 to retain a large number of remnants of serfdom.

14. Even the most loyal officials found it increasingly difficult to defend serfdom on moral grounds.

15. In the 1890s the Kaszubians emerged from the fog of feudal serfdom and manorial labour.

16. The status of the golf pro was elevated from serfdom to secular divinity in 20 years.

17. Since taking control of Tibet, China has abolished the Indian - based caste system and agricultural serfdom.

18. In a society based on serfdom, order depended upon upholding the authority of the serf-owners.

19. Under the centuries - long feudal serfdom, the Tibetan serfs were politically oppressed, economically exploited and frequently persecuted.

20. 29 Since taking control of Tibet, China has abolished the Indian - based caste system and agricultural serfdom.

21. Adscription (a form of Serfdom) originated in 1733 at the request by the Land Lords and the Military

22. Siberia was Colonized by the government, which exiled ordinary criminals and those who rebelled against serfdom to that region

23. He had learned, he told his audience, that rumours have spread among you of my intention to abolish serfdom.

24. In 1848 Prussian peasants rose up to put an end to serfdom and to pledges of service to their landlords.

25. Since the principal advantage of being a noble was the right to exploit peasant labour, serfdom looked set to continue.

26. The last vestiges of serfdom had disappeared in the sixteenth century, and the peasants farmed the land as leaseholders or sharecroppers.

27. It is better to begin abolishing serfdom from above than to wait for it to begin to abolish itself from below.

28. ‘Man commenced as an Anthropophagist; to this succeeded slavery; to slavery, serfdom; to serfdom, vassalage; to vassalage, proletarism.’ ‘The soil in America being covered with forests, made man a hunter, and from the custom of shedding blood, he became brutified in his habits and an Anthropophagist.’

29. The Vicosinos were of like mind and thus Supported the project to purchase the land and liberate these families from serfdom.

30. It is better to abolish serfdom from above than to await the day when it will begin to abolish itself from below.

31. It is better to begin abolishing serfdom from above than to wait for it to begin to abolish itself from below. Sentencedict.com

32. So far, we’ve read “A Communist Manifesto, ” (how could such a silly book have caused such widespread destruction?), and “The Road to Serfdom.”

33. The gentleman with the gray whiskers was obviously an inveterate Adherent of serfdom and a devoted agriculturist, who had lived all his life in the country

34. Many proprietors contrived to curtail the allotments which the peasants had occupied under serfdom, and frequently deprived them of precisely the parts of which they were most in need: pasture lands around their houses.

35. The Cottagers, opera by George Saville Carey; Chalupáři, Czech comedy; The Cottagers, nickname for Fulham F.C., a football club in London; Cottagers, one of the levels of serfdom in feudal societies; See also

36. 2 : of or relating to the work (such as harvesting) done in a field In south India, the situation seemed inconsistent, though varieties of Agrestic servitude which bore the characteristics of both serfdom and …

37. ‘It follows the Abolishment of the Working Families' Tax Credit, Disabled Person's Tax Credit and Children's Tax Credit, which is being replaced by two new tax systems.’ ‘Originally staged in January 1904, the play is set after the Abolishment of serfdom, but well before the Bolshevik Revolution.’