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• n  the state of a serf

• Some countries, notably Indonesia, fear that a strong, modern China may eventually try to reduce them to a kind of political vassalage.
• During the past twelve-month he has demonstrated his control of the Communist Party and the Government by reducing to political vassalage or inconsequence no less than six of .
• Until Pakistan solves her burgeoning internal problems, the sense of vassalage will probably remain.

• serfdom
• serfhood

Quotes

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• Thomas Jefferson in Right Side News
  Speaking of such a national institution Jefferson said "This institution is one of the most deadly hostility existing, against the principles and form of our Constitution. ...... I deem no government safe which is under the vassalage of any...
• Roger Taney in Baltimore Sun
  A hard necessity, indeed, compels us to endure the evil of slavery for a time,the lawyer Taney said. "It was imposed upon us by another nation [England] while we were yet in a state of colonial vassalage. It cannot be easily or suddenly...