Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or condition of a peon; peonage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
peonage .
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- noun
peonage
Etymologies
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peon + -ism
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Examples
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I understand that peonism, a sort of penal servitude, exists there, or rather a sort of voluntary sale of a man and his offspring for debt, an arrangement of a peculiar nature known to the law of Mexico.
American Eloquence, Volume 2 Studies In American Political History (1896) Various 1899
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Report Abuse one bold step toward a one-world government and one giant leap to extermination/ peonism for the masses.
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