peonism
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editpeonism (uncountable)
- peonage
- 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
- March 7 1850, Daniel Webster, speech delivered in the Senate
References
edit“peonism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.