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

The act of Congress which shall happily solve it will constitute a decree of emancipation as veritable as any that ever freed serf from thraldom, but more universal in its application.

From Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 by Jones, John P. (John Percival)

Ah, Constance, Constance, we came here to escape the thraldom of men, but to do that it needs that no men came!

From A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Taggart, Marion Ames

May the merciful Lord grant us this, who redeemed them all and us with his precious blood from the devil's thraldom.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham

He could look to no time during the life of his father in which he would be freed from the thraldom.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole