thraldom

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You'll be irritated not enraged, and will find its thraldom easy to resist.

From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2011

Enthral, en-thrawl′, Inthral, in-, v.t. to bring into thraldom or bondage: to enslave: to shackle.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

You may imagine with what feelings I saw myself emancipated from this thraldom, and free to proclaim 'liberty to the captive, and the opening of prison doors to them that were bound.'

From The Freedmen's Book by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

There he found the beautiful princess sad and forlorn, whom he soon relieved from her apprehensions of further thraldom.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

She was held in a thraldom of strange delight.

From The Homesteader A Novel by Micheaux, Oscar