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
And every peal of mirth was a challenge to the old order of hatred and the ancient thraldom of sullenness.
From The Code of the Mountains by Charles Neville Buck
Death, according to Socrates,282 either extinguishes life or emancipates it from the thraldom of the body.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
He was held in a thraldom of fear as she slowly advanced toward the bed.
From The Homesteader A Novel by Oscar Micheaux
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