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peonism

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

peonage

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Examples

  • March 7 1850, Daniel Webster, speech delivered in the Senate 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

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History

Etymology

From peon + -ism.