\Vil"lan*age\ (?; 48), 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}.]

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

         Some faint traces of villanage were detected by the
         curious so late as the days of the Stuarts.
                                               --Macaulay.

2. Baseness; infamy; villainy. [Obs.] --Dryden.