Antonyms for serfdom
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : surf |
| Phonetic Transcription : sÉœrf |
Definition of serfdom
Origin :- 1850, from serf + -dom. Earlier in the same sense was serfage (1775).
- noun slavery
- All military conquest involves the ancient practices of serfdom.
- Extract from : « Mountain Meditations » by L. Lind-af-Hageby
- In half an hour I was her abject slave, and proud in my serfdom.
- Extract from : « The Fifth String  » by John Philip Sousa
- All things have their climax, and France is tending swiftly to the climax of her serfdom.
- Extract from : « The Trampling of the Lilies » by Rafael Sabatini
- He was the real abolisher of serfdom in Russia, as history will yet prove.
- Extract from : « Memoirs » by Charles Godfrey Leland
- The man is not tied to the land, as in serfdom; nor is the land tied to the man, as in a peasantry.
- Extract from : « A Miscellany of Men » by G. K. Chesterton
- At the time of the abolition of serfdom in 1861, Russia had hardly any factories.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Bread » by Peter Kropotkin
- They were free to go, for serfdom was disappearing from most of the European countries.
- Extract from : « Society » by Henry Kalloch Rowe
- It made the abolition of serfdom final and absolute on and after October 8, 1810.
- Extract from : « The Governments of Europe » by Frederic Austin Ogg
- Astriction to the soil was at once the foundation and the symbol of that serfdom.
- Extract from : « Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber » by James Aitken Wylie
- The institutions of slavery, serfdom, and personal property existed.
- Extract from : « A History of Spain » by Charles E. Chapman
Synonyms for serfdom
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