Crossword clues for thralldom
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. A state of bondage, slavery, or subjugation to another person.
WordNet
Usage examples of "thralldom".
Simon guessed that she was using mind-touch to communicate that she had endured thralldom, and that she and Simon had come to take the boy away from his captivity.
Though she did want to free that final girl from thralldom as soon as possible.
I think he was forging his Brentford captives into his instrument of thralldom, with Guardian and ley line power fueling his weapon.
The boys in the tree were seized by the spectacle such that neither could be cynical temporarily, and each considered in private the priesthood, the prospect of hell, his own myriad sins, the pulsing thralldom of the ardent crowd, and the sexual charm of the visionary.
He was in thralldom to me, and I have called to him, blood to blood, but he does not respond.
If you try to outwait it, you will all die in thralldom under the whips of cruel masters.
Do ye thus: the Romans think no otherwise but to find you here to-morrow or else departed across the water as broken men, and they will fall upon you with their whole host, and then make a war-garth after their manner at Wolf-stead and carry fire and the sword and the chains of thralldom into every House of the Mark.
Perhaps the period of thralldom to the past was over and the brilliant old mind was getting to work again.
But then an idea came to him that it behoved him as priest to break through that Framley thralldom under which he felt that he did to a certain extent exist.
And while it was still officially practiced in his own League of Armagh, Celtic and Norse thralldom had little of the sheer brutality and degradation of the Mediterranean variety of servitude.
He was bored with his sexual thralldom and he did not choose his words as carefully as usual.
Sometimes, floral perfumes stopped his progress and held him in a momentary olfactory thralldom while his eyes searched out the source.
From this state of thralldom the heroes of the dawn had risen to break their shackles and to lead their people to many hard-fought victories.
Black Court to pick up some cheap muscle, Renfields have been crushed into total thralldom through brute psychic force.
I do mean, however, that there is no reason to point to Australia as a wonder-worker of woman's accomplishment, since her influence has been unable to free labor from the thralldom of political bossism.