VILLEINAGE Antonyms

• freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child

• the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints

• immunity from an obligation or duty

• a city in western Missouri; the beginning of the Santa Fe Trail

• freedom from control or influence of another or others

• the successful ending of the American Revolution

• immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence

• freedom of choice

• personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression

• leave granted to a sailor or naval officer

• an act of undue intimacy

• a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all

• a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right)

• (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship

• bestow a privilege upon

• government of a political unit by its own people

• determination of one's own fate or course of action without compulsion

• (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces

• government of a political unit by its own people

• government free from external control

• royal authority; the dominion of a monarch

• the authority of a state to govern another state