Peonism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    peonage uncountable

    "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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"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"

Etymology

From peon + -ism.

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