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

Would the champion dare to free the serfs from thraldom?

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

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

Sarrio earnestly desired to emancipate itself from the thraldom of pettiness and conventionality; it wished to break the bonds which had hitherto restrained it, and enter into full possession of its own conscience and rights.

From The Fourth Estate, vol.1 by Palacio Vald?s, Armando

We have come here to sail by the free wind of conscience, but look you, it must be the conscience of the few, greater thraldom than it was in the Old World!

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