helotry

English

Etymology

From helot +‎ -ry.

Noun

helotry (countable and uncountable, plural helotries)

1. (Ancient Greece) Collectively, the helots (slaves or bondsmen).
   • 2005, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eugene D. Genovese, The Mind of the Master Class, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 289:

     Apparently influenced by Montesquieu's judgment that Spartan helotry combined the worst features of slavery and serfdom, Dew credited the Athenians with treating their slaves gently.

References

• “helotry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Rothley, Thorley, otherly