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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bondage \Bond"age\, n. [LL. bondagium. See Bond, a.]
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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 he would not make my bondage hard.
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Obligation; tie of duty.
He must resolve by no means to be . . . brought under the bondage of observing oaths.
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(Old Eng. Law) Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.
Syn: Thralldom; bond service; imprisonment.
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, inhabit," from PIE *bhow-, from root *bheue- "to be, exist, dwell" (see be). Meaning in English changed by influence of bond. The sexual sado-masochism sense is recorded by 1966.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery. 2 (context by extension English) The state of lacking freedom; constraint. 3 The practice of tie up people up for sexual pleasure. 4 (context attributive English) Applied to clothing with many buckles, zips, etc., associated with punk and goth subcultures.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Bondage is the practice of consentually tying, binding, or restraining a partner for erotic, aesthetic, and/or somatosensory stimulation. Rope, cuffs, bondage tape, self-adhering bandage, or other restraints may be used for this purpose.
Bondage itself does not necessarily imply sadomasochism. Bondage may be used as an end into itself, as in the case of rope bondage and breast bondage. It may also be used as a part of sex or in conjunction with other BDSM activities. The letter "B" in the acronym "BDSM" comes from the word "bondage". Sexuality and erotica are an important aspect in bondage, but are often not the end in itself. Aesthetics also plays an important role in bondage.
A common reason for the active partner to tie up their partner is so both may gain pleasure from the restrained partner's submission and the feeling of the temporary transfer of control and power. For sadomasochistic people, bondage is often used as a means to an end, where the restrained partner is more accessible to other sadomasochistic behaviour. However, bondage can also be used for its own sake. The restrained partner can derive tactile pleasure from the feeling of helplessness and immobility, and the active partner can derive visual pleasure and satisfaction from seeing their partner tied up.
Bondage is a 1992 play by American playwright David Henry Hwang. It deals with issues of race and racial stereotypes by placing a fully disguised man and woman in an S and M parlor playing out sexual games. The play premiered as part of the Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival on March 1, 1992. It was shown in tandem with Suzan-Lori Parks' short play Devotees in the Garden of Love under the title Rites of Mating. It was directed by Oskar Eustis and featured B. D. Wong and Hwang's wife Kathryn Layng.
It is published as part of Trying to Find Chinatown: The Selected Plays by Theatre Communications Group. and also in an acting edition published by Dramatists Play Service.
Bondage is a 2006 film written and directed by Eric Allen Bell (creator of Global One TV). The film had limited release in January 2006.
Bondage is Nana Kitade's third full-length album, and last release with Sony Music Japan. In its first week, it debuted at #85 selling 1,698 copies.
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 March 31, 1933, by Fox Film Corporation.
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.