maroonage

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noun

The fact or state of being a maroon.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounmaroonage (uncountable)

alternative marronage

  1. uncountableThe fact or state of being a maroon.

    Outside the city, in the swamps, blacks and Indians lived in marronage.

    2008, Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans, Lawrence Hill Books, published 2009, page 84
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    Haiti came under French rule in 1677, but this did not diminish the “marronage”.

    1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 64

    Between the years 1764 and 1793, for example, newspaper advertisements alone indicate some forty-eight thousand cases of Maroonage.

    1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 194

Origin

  1. Frenchmarronnage
  2. Englishmaroonage

From maroon + -age, often as a calque of French marronnage.

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APA

maroonage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/maroonage

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “maroonage,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/maroonage.

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