Bondage

Bondage
Bondage Bond"age, 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]


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