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bondwoman

noun as in captive

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Example Sentences

The unhappy bondwoman gazed at her with an expression of intense misery, which she was never afterward able to forget.

Mrs. Lawton, unaccustomed to any remonstrance from her bondwoman, seized a switch and shook it threateningly.

In their thoughts she was merely a bondwoman taken from the heathen, and consigned to their keeping for their uses.

The Holy Ghost contemptuously calls the admirers of the Law the children of the bondwoman.

Sarah's demand that the bondwoman and her son be cast out of the house was undoubtedly a blow to Abraham.

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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bondwoman, such as: detainee, hostage, prisoner, prisoner of war, slave, and bondman.

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

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