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Another word for thrall

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Noun

  1. A state of subjugation to an owner or master

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Another word for thrall

Noun
      1. In the Middle Ages, a person who held land under the feudal system, doing homage and pledging fealty to an overlord, and performing military or other duties in return for his protection; feudal tenant
      2. A subordinate, subject, servant, slave, etc.
      3. A person who held land from a feudal lord and received protection in return for homage and allegiance.
      1. A person in feudal servitude, bound to his or her master's land and transferred with it to a new owner
      2. An agricultural laborer under various similar systems, especially in Russia and eastern Europe in the 1700s and 1800s.
      3. A member of the lowest feudal class, legally bound to a landed estate and required to perform labor for the lord of that estate in exchange for a personal allotment of land.
      1. A male bondservant.
      2. A man or boy bondservant
      3. A feudal serf
    See also:

    slave

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Sentence Examples

  • It indicates the endeavour of man to reconstitute himself as a free being, not as the thrall of theological despotism, and the peculiar assistance he derived in this effort from Greek and Roman literature, the litterae humaniores, letters leaning rather to the side of man than of divinity.

  • The thrall had a house of his own and was rather villein or serf than slave, having rights and a legal price by law.

  • THRALL, a slave, a captive or bondman, a term especially applied to the serfs.

  • There were but two degrees of men, free and unfree, though only the franklins had any political power; and, from the nature of the life, social intercourse was unrestrained and unfettered; gon and thrall lived the same lives, ate the same food, spoke the same tongue, and differed little in clothing or habits.

  • When we turn to the social divisions we find in Domesday and other documents classes of society in these districts bearing purely Norse names, dreng, karl, karlman, bonde, thrall, lysing, hold; in the system of taxation we have an assessment by carucates and not by hides and virgates, and the duodecimal rather than the decimal system of reckoning.

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