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Definition of Helotry
1. n. The Helots, collectively; slaves; bondsmen.
Definition of Helotry
1. Noun. The helots collectively; slaves; bondsmen. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Helotry
1. helotism [n -RIES] - See also: helotism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Helotry
Literary usage of Helotry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury (1913)
"The system of helotry was a source of danger from the earliest times, but especially
after the conquest of Messenia ; and the state of constant military ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1869)
"... and source of inspiration in corporeal passion ; that he may err like Titian,
or sin like Correggio ; perhaps fall into the modern helotry of harlotry. ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) (1905)
"He spoke of the helotry with which they are treated. I do not know whether he
has been in India; but if he has, he would know that the dwellings of the ..."
4. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1921)
"The system of helotry was a source of danger from the earliest times....and the
state of constant military preparation in which the Spartans lived may have ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1863)
"The degeneracy of this people is attributable to prolonged Magyar tyranny, which
kept them for centuries in a state of abject helotry. ..."
6. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1858)
"... their persecuted faith, with a barbarous agriculture as their principal
pursuit — a numerous and degraded helotry, whom Swift compared to ' Irish swine. ..."
7. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1895)
"Russell wrote from Charleston, April 21:" The State [South Carolina] is but a
gigantic Sparta, in which the helotry are marked by an indelible difference of ..."
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