as in slavery
the state of being an enslaved person
people freed from bondage
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Recent Examples of bondage
The divine right of kings, feudalism, human bondage.
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Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
Nostalgic descriptions of pre-Civil War Christmases on Southern plantations are just one of the ways Lost Cause proponents obscure the horrors of human bondage in Dixie, allowing politicians to tap into neo-Confederate rhetoric and policies to win the support of white Southern voters.
—Robert E. May / Made By History, TIME, 19 Dec. 2024
As our protagonist makes his flight from bondage along the Mississippi River, dodging slavers, sailing alongside an unrecognizable Huck, indignities continue to accumulate, hardening James, until violent delights culminate in delightfully violent ends.
—The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
The contest has been framed by the Moscow-leaning incumbent government as a choice between war and peace, and by the Western-facing opposition as a choice between freedom and bondage.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024
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Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
Nostalgic descriptions of pre-Civil War Christmases on Southern plantations are just one of the ways Lost Cause proponents obscure the horrors of human bondage in Dixie, allowing politicians to tap into neo-Confederate rhetoric and policies to win the support of white Southern voters.
—Robert E. May / Made By History, TIME, 19 Dec. 2024
As our protagonist makes his flight from bondage along the Mississippi River, dodging slavers, sailing alongside an unrecognizable Huck, indignities continue to accumulate, hardening James, until violent delights culminate in delightfully violent ends.
—The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
The contest has been framed by the Moscow-leaning incumbent government as a choice between war and peace, and by the Western-facing opposition as a choice between freedom and bondage.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024
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“Bondage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bondage. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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