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bondage

noun as in slavery

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Such complexity is the essence of this incisive but unimaginatively adapted story, which subverts the overly simplistic binaries of bondage and liberty, oppressed and oppressor, abolitionist and enslaver.

From Time

It started with a much older law, one that shaped a more complex legacy of human bondage.

Republicans, based in the South, shot back that their rivals were nothing less than monarchists — stifling free speech, repressing the people and endangering slavery by recognizing the Haitian rebels who had thrown off their bondage.

Examples include freedom from slavery, bondage, and oppression.

Washington kept him and the other enslaved members of the president’s house in bondage by circumventing the Pennsylvania abolition law that allowed them to petition for freedom if they remained in the state more than six months.

Appearances mostly occurred in crime novels like “Bondage and boyflesh” by Newt Jennings.

But the craziest thing I did was the stuff I did for Device Bondage, which is actually super fun.

Porn star Holly Sampson, whose work includes Descent Into Bondage and Diary of a Horny Housewife.

The day will come, however, when people will think of him as the man who wrote Of Human Bondage.

Freedom gotten by the Sword is an 140 established Bondage to some part or other of the Creation.

Because it brings in Kingly Bondage again, and is the occasion of all quarrels and oppressions.

No man shall either give hire or take hire for his work; for this brings in Kingly Bondage.

Bondage, serfdom, even slavery, seemed to be sanctioned by the Bible.

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On this page you'll find 27 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bondage, such as: enslavement, serfdom, servitude, subjugation, yoke, and chains.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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