pawnagen.
/ˈpɔːnɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈpɔnɪdʒ/, /ˈpɑnɪdʒ/ The action of pawning something; the fact or condition of being a pawn (in various senses).
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > [noun] > act of pawning
pignoration1549
limbo1590
pawning1592
impignoration1598
pawnage1624
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avuncularism1859
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1624 R. Montagu Immediate Addresse 20 Had not Samson lost his Eyes, he had not left his Life so, with the price of his own bloud vpon the Philistines: no Man so dearely payed the pawnage of folly in his separation from the God of his life.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 211 To begin with Redemption, the leading term introductory to most of the rest: it signifies literally the purchase of a captive slave... In our days the term is so constantly restrained to cases of slavery or pawnage bought off with money.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. ii. xiv. 181 Sigismund..pawned the Newmark too,—the second Pawnage of Brandenburg.
1996 William & Mary Q. 53 261 African slavery in its various forms—from pawnage to chattel bondage—was practiced in these towns.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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