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Bondslave vs Vassal - What's the difference?

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Bondslave is a related term of vassal.


As nouns the difference between bondslave and vassal

is that bondslave is one who works as a slave under an indenture; a bondsman or bondswoman while vassal is (historical) the grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who keeps land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him, normally a lord of a manor; a feudatory; a feudal tenant.

As an adjective vassal is

resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.

As a verb vassal is

to treat as a vassal or to reduce to the position of a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.

bondslave

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who works as a slave under an indenture; a bondsman or bondswoman.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.11:
  • *:To whom they shewed, how those marchants were / Arriv'd in place their bondslaves for to buy […].

    • vassal

    English

    Alternative forms

    * vasal (rare)

    Noun

    (wikipedia vassal) (en noun)
  • (historical) The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who keeps land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him, normally a lord of a manor; a feudatory; a feudal tenant.
  • A subject; a dependant; a servant; a slave.
  • * Milton
    • The vassals of his anger.

    Related terms

    * valet * varlet

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.

    • Verb

    (vassall)
  • To treat as a vassal or to reduce to the position of a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.
  • To subordinate to someone or something.

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