Servitude Synonyms and Antonyms

Servitude Sentence Examples

• Capital punishment was abolished in 1877, penal servitude for life being substituted.

• There are no vindictive punishments, such as a solitary confinement, penal servitude for long terms of years, &c. Seldom, indeed, is a man imprisoned more than twelve months, the rule being that there is a general jail delivery at the New Year.

• As for penal servitude, the punishment reserved for the gravest offences, great changes had been introduced.

• Among other internal reforms the abolition of the last traces of servitude in 1289, and the increase in the number of arti, first to 12 and then to 21 (7 maggiori and 14 minori) must be mentioned.

• To such a miserable pretence of freedom they all preferred servitude, which at least ensured them a livelihood; and the middle class of freemen thus became gradually extinct.