Bondage
['bɒndɪdʒ] or ['bɑndɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners.
(noun.) the state of being under the control of another person.
(noun.) the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power; 'he was in bondage to fear:; 'he sought release from his bondage to Satan'; 'a self freed from the bondage of time'.
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Definition
(a.) The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.
(a.) Obligation; tie of duty.
(a.) Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Servitude, slavery, thraldom, captivity, imprisonment, confinement, bond-service, bonds, restraint of personal liberty.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Servitude, confinement, imprisonment, incarceration, subjection, serfdom,thraldom, captivity, slavery
ANT:Freedom, liberty, independence, manumission, liberation
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Definition
n. state of being bound: captivity: slavery.—n. Bond′ager a female outworker in the Border and North country whom the hind or married cottar was bound to provide for the farm-work.
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Examples
- So long as she does not send for you and reveal her face to you, you may live on for years in as mild a form of bondage as I can arrange for you. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Her life, begun not unprosperously, had come down to this--to a mean prison and a long, ignoble bondage. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And whether it is negro slavery or a vicious sexual bondage, the actual advance comes from substitutions injected into society by dynamic social forces. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Our children, freed from the bondage of winter, bounded before us; pursuing the deer, or rousing the pheasants and partridges from their coverts. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The old way of love seemed a dreadful bondage, a sort of conscription. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Rachel Halliday drew Eliza toward her, and said, The Lord hath had mercy on thee, daughter; thy husband hath escaped from the house of bondage. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Although his educational philosophy was revolutionary, it was none the less in bondage to static ideals. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Besides, threats were uttered of forcing me to return to bondage. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The young girl spoke in high and enthusiastic terms of her mother, who, born in freedom spurned the bondage to which she was now reduced. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- With Carthoris at my side I fought for the red men of Barsoom and for their total emancipation from the throttling bondage of a hideous superstition. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He groaned inwardly, under its bondage, but he loved it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- My young friend, what is bondage? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It is a captive; it lies in physical bondage. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He had a strong desire to escape from his bondage, and, after five years of servitude, found the opportunity. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It describes that system as one in which a small class owns the means of production and holds the rest of mankind in bondage. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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