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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
thraldom
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ She had never put her own family into meal thraldom.
▪ The symptoms of our modern thraldom can be alarming.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thraldom

Thraldom \Thral"dom\, n. [Icel. ?r[ae]ld[=o]mr. See Thrall, and -dom.] The condition of a thrall; slavery; bondage; state of servitude. [Written also thralldom.]

Women are born to thraldom and penance And to be under man's governance.
--Chaucer.

He shall rule, and she in thraldom live.
--Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
thraldom

also thralldom, c.1200; see thrall + -dom.

Wiktionary
thraldom

n. (alternative spelling of thralldom English)

WordNet
thraldom

n. the state of being under the control of another person [syn: bondage, slavery, thrall, thralldom]

Usage examples of "thraldom".

Simply because Comstock is but the loud expression of the Puritanism bred in the Anglo-Saxon blood, and from whose thraldom even liberals have not succeeded in fully emancipating themselves.

When, however, Queen Victoria ascended the throne, they eagerly declared their emancipation from the thraldom of an hostile court, and they proclaimed that the young queen had entered warmly into their views, and had espoused their political creed without reservation.

Miss Wisk was that the only practical thing for the world was the emancipation of woman from the thraldom of her tyrant, man.

Lady Roos and her husband, at which, with many passionate entreaties, she had implored him to shake off the thraldom in which he had bound himself, and to return to her, when all should be forgiven and forgotten,but without effect.

For while a small, and, politically speaking, uninfluential, party are prepared to make every sacrifice and run all risks in order to blot out slavery on the instant, the influential and acting leaders of the majority, whatever their occasional language of denunciation, and affectation of horror, are not disposed to brave the rebellion of the South, and the possible disruption of the Republic, for the sake of shortening the thraldom of the negro some fifty years.

Though Jones was well satisfied with his deliverance from a thraldom which those who have ever experienced it will, I apprehend, allow to be none of the lightest, he was not, however, perfectly easy in his mind.

On they passed, troop after troop, banners waving, spears glancing, plumes dancing, in long perspective--a host composed of different nations, complexions, languages, arms, and appearances, but all fired, for the time, with the holy yet romantic purpose of rescuing the distressed daughter of Zion from her thraldom, and redeeming the sacred earth, which more than mortal had trodden, from the yoke of the unbelieving pagan.

Simply because Comstock is but the loud expression of the Puritanism bred in the Anglo-Saxon blood, and from whose thraldom even liberals have not succeeded in fully emancipating themselves.

Who has no judgment, must a creed espouse: Advanced in life, our boys are bound by rules, Are catechised in churches, cloisters, schools, And train’d in thraldom to be fit for tools: The youth grown up, he now a partner needs, And lo!

Once before, I made an effort to free you from your uncle's thraldom.