helotry

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If we permit them - and only our principled resistance, peaceful where possible, but forceful where necessary, is the only thing that will stop them - those who presume to rule us intend to reduce us to abject helotry.

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  1. noun The condition of serfdom.
  2. noun Helots considered as a group.

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  • If we permit them - and only our principled resistance, peaceful where possible, but forceful where necessary, is the only thing that will stop them - those who presume to rule us intend to reduce us to abject helotry. —  LewRockwell.com
  • Nine years of helotry! —  The Message
  • It would be worth his while to keep his commercial helotry supplied with sceptical literature. —  Orthodoxy
  • It could hardly be said that the relations were entirely harmonious between the military-minded rector, who held to the righteousness of helotry and the value of ignorance in the class beneath him, and the young curate burning with zeal and oppressed with the desire to put all the crooked things of life straight. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876
 

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/ˈhilɑtri/
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