- a variation of thralldom.
thraldom
Example Sentences
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You'll be irritated not enraged, and will find its thraldom easy to resist.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2011
Cruikshank's thraldom to his manner was the more obvious, since the manner was often wooden, often joyously ugly.
From George Cruikshank by W. H. Chesson
Even my Custom-house experience was not such a thraldom and weariness as this.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
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 John P. (John Percival) Jones
Did she hold him in such abject thraldom that he really could not get on without her?
From The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield
