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Bondage synonyms

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slavery
The condition of being subject or addicted to a specified influence.
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  1. The condition of being subject or addicted to a specified influence.
  2. A condition of hard work and subjection:
  3. The condition of being a slave; bondage; servitude
servitude
Work imposed as punishment for crime
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  1. Work imposed as punishment for crime
  2. A state of subjection to an owner or master.
  3. Forced labor imposed as a punishment for crime:
thralldom
The condition of being a thrall; servitude; slavery
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  1. The condition of being a thrall; servitude; slavery
helotry
Helots considered as a group.
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  1. Helots considered as a group.
  2. The helots collectively; slaves; bondsmen.
  3. Serfdom or slavery
serfdom
The feudal system that includes serfs.
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  1. The feudal system that includes serfs.
  2. The state of being a serf.
servility
The condition of being servile.
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  1. The condition of being servile.
servitude
A right to use another’s property without ownership. See easement, license, profit.
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  1. A right to use another’s property without ownership. See easement, license, profit.
  2. A state of subjection to an owner or master.
  3. Forced labor imposed as a punishment for crime:
slavery
The condition of being subject or addicted to a specified influence.
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  1. The condition of being subject or addicted to a specified influence.
  2. A condition of hard work and subjection:
  3. The condition of being a slave; bondage; servitude
thrall
One, such as a slave or serf, who is held in bondage.
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  1. One, such as a slave or serf, who is held in bondage.
  2. (Literary) A slave or bondman
  3. The state of being in the power of another person or under the sway of an influence:
thralldom
The condition of being a thrall; servitude; slavery
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  1. The condition of being a thrall; servitude; slavery
villeinage
The state of being a villein.
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  1. The state of being a villein.
  2. The legal status or condition of a villein.
  3. The conditions of tenure by which a villein held his land
yoke
The condition of being subjugated by or as if by a conqueror; subjugation or bondage:
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  1. The condition of being subjugated by or as if by a conqueror; subjugation or bondage:
  2. Any mark or symbol of bondage or servitude
  3. Subjection; bondage; servitude
Find another word for bondage. In this page you can discover 17 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for bondage, like: slavery, servitude, thralldom, subjugation, slavery, enslavement, helotry, serfdom, servileness, servility and servitude.

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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