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peonism

noun

Etymology

From peon + -ism.

  1. derived from pedo — “pedestrian”
  2. borrowed from peón
  3. borrowed from pion
  4. suffixed as peonism — “peon + ism”

Definitions

  1. 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

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA