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UK
/bˈɒndɪdʒ/
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[ US /ˈbɑndɪdʒ/ ]
[ US /ˈbɑndɪdʒ/ ]
NOUN
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the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power
a self freed from the bondage of time
he sought release from his bondage to Satan
he was in bondage to fear - sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners
- the state of being under the control of another person
How To Use bondage In A Sentence
- So the girl was out of bondage, but Cadwaladr, sick with humiliation and rage, must come under guard to be handed over for a price to the brother who discarded and misprized him. His Disposition
- There followed seventeen years of sectarian vagabondage: founded in 1830, the sect settled in Kirtland, Ohio, Jackson, Missouri, and Nauvoo, Illinois, reaching Great Salt Lake Valley, Utah, in 1847.
- Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigour, and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field; all their service wherein they made them serve, was with rigour_. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
- Although the majority of slaves lived and died in bondage, the intelligent and enterprising slave lived in the hope of eventually buying his freedom.
- Estas ferramentas deixam marcas no corpo, como marcas de dentadas, queimaduras de carpetes, marcas de bondage, mordeduras, arranhões e nódoas negras. Björn Franke
- La Sylphide also popularized the white tutus, freeing the ballerinas from the bondage of stiffening panniers.
- He went on to say that the fugitives had been pursued and captured and brought back to bondage; and upon Borrow's admitting that he had been the instigator of the adventure, he was sentenced to be flogged, and that it was on the back of this very Martineau that he had been "horsed" to undergo the punishment! Hawthorne and His Circle
- Varied mythical figures have been conjured up as saviours of a people in decline or bondage.
- Trapped in the vicious cycle of bondage and slavery, they have nowhere to go and are thrust into a life which reduces them to nothing but robots.
- This language carries to the human mind, with irresistible force, the idea of _two distinct states_ -- one a state of _freedom_, the other a state of _bondage_: in one of which, a person is serving with his consent for wages; in the other of which a person is serving without his _consent_, according to his master's pleasure. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject