n. [ OF. villenage, vilenage. See Villain. ] 1. (Feudal Law) The state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord. [ In this sense written also villenage, and villeinage. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I speak even now as if sin were condemned in a perpetual villanage, never to be manumitted. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some faint traces of villanage were detected by the curious so late as the days of the Stuarts. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Baseness; infamy; villainy. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]