Villeins is valid Scrabble Word

Is villeins a scrabble word?
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8 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for VILLEINS in dictionary:

NOUN:

VILLEIN, (historical) a free villager; a serf
(in medieval England) a feudal tenant entirely subject to a lord or manor to whom he paid dues and services in return for land.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a type of serf

Words related to VILLEINS

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How to use VILLEINS in a sentence

The freemen, tenants, villeins, slaves, are laboring and deriving sustenance from arable land, meadow, common pasture, wood, and water.
In Anglo-Saxon times every two villeins were required to maintain one of these dogs for the purpose of reducing the number of wolves and other wild animals.
For that matter, the professional men and the artists are at this present moment villeins in everything but name, while the politicians are henchmen.
The villeins of the cities and towns who do unskilled work and are unprotected by organization.
The rest of the tenants were villeins or cottagers, thirteen of the former and eight of the latter.
In the thirteenth century the labour services of the villeins were stricter than in the eleventh.
Owing to the dearth of labourers for hire, and the loss of many of the services of their villeins, the lords found it very hard to farm their demesne lands.
There, in the period 1272-1307, there were many free tenants as well as villeins, and the holdings of the latter were small, usually only 5 acres.
The economic position of the villeins, the administration of the demesne, and the whole organization of the manor were revolutionized.
We cannot wonder that the poor villeins were profoundly discontented.

On this manor, as on others, some of the villeins, in spite of the many disadvantages under which they lay, managed to accumulate some little wealth.
No one but the lord was allowed to keep them, and they were one of the chief grievances of the villeins, who saw their seed devoured by these pests without redress.
But if the position of the lords was severely affected by the great pestilence that of the villeins was also.
A powerful aristocracy was constituted, which owned estates and had them cultivated by serfs or villeins.
The villeins themselves sought to procure enfranchisement, and the right to hire themselves out to their lords, or to any master they might choose.
Nevertheless, we must beware of finding an indication of public opinion in these boyish games played by the sons of villeins.
Unable to exact ransom from the villeins who had taken flight, the men-at-arms had destroyed all their goods.
And money could yet be only got from the barons, the nobility, or at least the landed gentry, because the people, the agricultural laborers or serfs, villeins, owned no land.
Below the gentle class were freemen, and the remainder of the population were serfs or villeins.
It was not impossible for villeins to purchase freedom.

Similar words containing VILLEIN without suffix s

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