bondage
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
< Middle English bondage, Mediaeval Latin bondagium (“‘an inferior tenure held by a bond or husbandman’”); see bond.
[edit] Noun
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bondage (uncountable)
- The state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery.
- In Judeo-Christian tradition, the Israelites fled bondage at the hands of the Egyptians, only to wander in the wilderness for the next four decades.
- (by extension) The state of lacking freedom; constraint.
- He lived in financial bondage to his cocaine habit; no matter how much he earned, it all seemed to disappear up his nose.
- The practice of tying people up for sexual pleasure.
- Their marriage broke up when she discovered he had been engaging in bondage games with a local dominatrix while he was supposedly working out at the gym.
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[edit] Translations
The state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery
The state of lacking freedom; constraint
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The practice of tying people up for sexual pleasure
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[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- bondage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- bondage in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- “subjection” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
