vassalage

The two kingdoms would be one; the two navies would be one; and all other states would be reduced to vassalage.

To remain here in North America, and be crushed to the earth in vassalage and degradation, we never will.

The act of the new tribes was, therefore, an observance of international etiquette rather than an acknowledgment of vassalage.

The Vizier, he says, by this treaty was reduced to a state of vassalage; and he makes this curious distinction in proof of it.