'Bondage' definitions:
Definition of 'bondage'
(from WordNet)
noun
The state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power; "he was in bondage to fear:; "he sought release from his bondage to Satan"; "a self freed from the bondage of time"
noun
The state of being under the control of another person [syn: bondage, slavery, thrall, thralldom, thraldom]
noun
Sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners
Definition of 'Bondage'
From: GCIDE
- Bondage \Bond"age\ (-[asl]j), n. [LL. bondagium. See Bond, a.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity. [1913 Webster]
- The King, when he designed you for my guard, Resolved he would not make my bondage hard. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Obligation; tie of duty. [1913 Webster]
- He must resolve by no means to be . . . brought under the bondage of observing oaths. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Old Eng. Law) Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Thralldom; bond service; imprisonment. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'bondage'
From: Easton
- Bondage of Israel in Egypt (Ex. 2:23, 25; 5), which is called the "house of bondage" (13:3; 20:2). This word is used also with reference to the captivity in Babylon (Isa. 14:3), and the oppression of the Persian king (Ezra 9:8, 9).
Synonyms of 'bondage'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolutism,
- bond service,
- captivity,
- control,
- debt slavery,
- deprivation of freedom,
- disenfranchisement,
- disfranchisement,
- domination,
- enslavement,
- enthrallment,
- feudalism,
- feudality,
- helotism,
- helotry,
- indentureship,
- peonage,
- restraint,
- serfdom,
- serfhood,
- servility,
- servitude,
- slavery,
- subjection,
- subjugation,
- thrall,
- thralldom,
- tyranny,
- vassalage,
- villenage,
- yoke