Crossword-Solution: HELOTISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Helotism | n. | The condition of the Helots or slaves in Sparta; slavery. |
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| condition or quality of being a helot | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with HELOTISM (5)
But are there not two nations among them--two nations radically opposed to each other and incapable of coalescing? Supposing a resurrection of the people, which of the two is to prevail--the numerical majority, or the so far influential minority? In either event, it is fair to suppose a new state of helotism for the one party or the other.
This establishment is founded on the principle of community of property and labor: these fellow-creatures, that is, the blacks, admitted here, requiting these services by services equal or greater, by filling occupations which their habits render easy, and which to their guides and assistants might be difficult or unpleasing." This form of helotism flourished but three years on American soil.
The fate of subjugated Spain may be expressed in these words,--pillage--depression--and helotism--for the supposed aggrandizement of the imaginary freeman its master.
There would indeed be attempts at encouragement, that there might be a supply of something to pillage: studied depression there would be, that there might arise no power of resistance: and lastly helotism;--but of what kind? that a vain and impious Nation might have slaves, worthier than itself, for work which its own hands would reject with scorn.
Although it does not fall within the scope of the present work to enter upon a moral or political examination of the condition of Helotism, I may be allowed to subjoin a few observations.