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Another word for bondage

Noun

  1. A state of subjugation to an owner or master

    2. See also:

    over

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Another word for bondage

Noun
    2. See also:

    slavery

    slavery

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Sentence Examples

  • His bondage lasted for six years.

  • Burke declined to sell himself into final bondage of this kind.

  • The practical end, freedom from the bondage of things with the peace it brings, is all in all, and even scientific inquiry is only in place as a means to this end.

  • But many of the laws were quite unsuitable for the circumstances of his age, and the belief that a body of intricate and even contradictory legislation was imposed suddenly upon a people newly emerged from bondage in Egypt raises insurmountable objections, and underestimates the fact that legal usage existed in the earliest stages of society, and therefore in pre-Mosaic times.

  • The interpretation of the evil omen is explained by an allusion to the bondage of the Israelites in Egypt and their return in the fourth generation (xv.

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