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bondage

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Bondage is a 1933 American drama film directed by Alfred Santell and written by Arthur Kober and Doris Malloy. The film stars Dorothy Jordan , Alexander Kirkland , Merle Tottenham , Nydia Westman , Jane Darwell and Edward Woods . The film was released on ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But we ask far more of you before your bondage is at an end. ▪ Financial bondage is caused by a lack of contentment and poor stewardship. ▪ How typical of Graham, mused Celestine, I bet half the class is thinking of bondage . ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bondage \Bond"age\, n. [LL. bondagium. See Bond , a.] The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity. The King, when he designed you for my guard, Resolved ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of being under the control of another person [syn: slavery , thrall , thralldom , thraldom ] sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "condition of a serf or slave," from Anglo-Latin bondagium , from Middle English bond "a serf, tenant farmer," from Old English bonda "householder," from Old Norse boandi "free-born farmer," noun use of present participle of boa "dwell, prepare, ...

Usage examples of bondage.

Not only that, but two other inmates of the House of Bondage were taken with Lamb before a commission, and adjudged sane as a preliminary to their release.

The men alaying under the earth in gray have lain down their lives for some reason we may never know, just as the Lord knows all things, for some strange purpose He allowed this great conflict to take place on the earth and the people held in bondage to be unfettered and men of the South to be blinded even in their own doorways.

Though I now wore no chains on the wharves I was still, of course, in a sense chained in my bondage.

The created shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption, of the flesh liable to decay, into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

Hammond and his men those in charge of the Everglade camp, and the miserable creatures they held in virtual bondage, offered little resistance.

In leafage and frondage Where shadows are deep, They pass to its bondage -- The kingdom of sleep.

Six weeks before, God had delivered me from my bondage to an infamous woman, and now I was in danger of becoming the slave of an angel.

It was he, moreover, who loosened the hostageship and bondage of the Gaeidhel to the devil.

Man is essentially an idolater,--that is, in bondage to his imagination,-- for there is no more harm in the Greek word eidolon than in the Latin word imago.

He smiled indulgently when her mother took her to an improvised meeting center in a shabby house near the Kebar where there was endless talk of Adonai and of prophets and wishful prophecies of future deliverance of the Hebrews from their bondage in Babylon.

He had nothing to say to Mme Musette except that he wanted Martin to be released, not only from his physical bondage but from his mental bondage, too.

Consequently, although, after deceiving man, the devil, so far as in him lay, held him unjustly in bondage as to both sin and penalty, still it was just that man should suffer it, God so permitting it as to the sin and ordaining it as to the penalty.

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Then they would have seen the cultivated alluvial flood plains in the distance, not at all the way Hausner had seen it from the flight deck of Concorde 02, but it must have looked inviting, even though they knew it was the place of their bondage.

By the aid of apperception, therefore, we are lifted gradually from psychical bondage to mental and moral freedom.