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Etymology

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From helot +‎ -ry.

Noun

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helotry (countable and uncountable, plural helotries)

  1. (Ancient Greece) Collectively, the helots (slaves or bondsmen).
    • 2005, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eugene D. Genovese, The Mind of the Master Class, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 289:
      Apparently influenced by Montesquieu's judgment that Spartan helotry combined the worst features of slavery and serfdom, Dew credited the Athenians with treating their slaves gently.

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