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helotry

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hel·ot·ry  (hl-tr)
n.
1. The condition of serfdom.
2. Helots considered as a group.

helotry [ˈhɛlətrɪ ˈhiː-]
n
1. serfdom or slavery
2. serfs or slaves as a class

Helotry slaves or bondsmen collectively.
Example: helotry of mammon, 1829.


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Johan Huizinga in In the Shadow of Tomorrow (1935) commended Ortega's diagnosis of the "puerilism" of the day, "that blend of adolescence and barbarity", the "worldwide bastardization of culture", "the entry of half-educated masses into the international traffic of the mind", and the links it all had with totalitarianism: "the spectacle of a society rapidly goose-stepping into helotry.
 
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