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serf·dom [ˈsɜ:fdəm] N no pl hist

serfdom

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However, the efforts were based on the old system of serfdom (forced labor) and failed. en.wikipedia.org

Yet conditions were improving as serfdom was breaking down. en.wikipedia.org

After the abolition of serfdom in 1746, the word "rumn" gradually fell out of use and the spelling stabilised to the form "romn". en.wikipedia.org

It outlasted serfdom as it outlasted feudalism: primarily an economic organization, it could maintain a warrior, but it could equally well maintain a capitalist landlord. en.wikipedia.org

After the abolition of serfdom, the city has grown significantly in numbers and territory; there were large-scale production enterprises. en.wikipedia.org

Serfdom is an institution that has always been commonplace for human society; however, it has not always been of the same nature. en.wikipedia.org

The novel was regarded as the strongest statement against the system of serfdom of its time. en.wikipedia.org

Serfdom disappeared from the records in the fourteenth century and new social groups of labourers, craftsmen and merchants, became important in the developing burghs. en.wikipedia.org

Their lives and bodies, along with all that they had, belonged to the lord at the castle, an arrangement known as serfdom. en.wikipedia.org

He reprimands their evil exploiters, but he does not raise any protest against the system of serfdom. en.wikipedia.org

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