The present participle of enserf; the act of reducing people to serfdom or binding them to land.
From enserf + -ing (present participle suffix). This continuous form describes the ongoing or progressive action of converting free people into feudal serfs.
Historical documents use 'enserfing' to describe the systematic process by which European nobles converted peasants into serfs—it was often a gradual economic process rather than a single event.
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