thraldom

Definitions

A state of bondage, slavery, or subjugation to another person.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“For ye into like⟳ thraldome me did throw⟳, And kept from complishing the faith which I did owe⟳.”

“Beauteous Penthea […] is novv ſo yoak'd / To a moſt barbarous thraldome, miſery, / Affliction, that [s]he ſauors not humanity.”

“The wretched thraldom was over,—and what had it left?”

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