About The Word Bondage
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Bondage
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What's The Definition Of Bondage?
[n] sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners
[n] the state of being under the control of another person Synonyms | Synonyms for Bondage: slavery | thraldom | thrall | thralldom Related Terms | Find terms related to Bondage: 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 See Also | captivity | enslavement | servitude | sex | sex activity | sexual activity | sexual practice Bondage In Webster's Dictionary \Bond"age\, n. [LL. bondagium. See {Bond}, a.]
1. The state of being bound; condition of being under
restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion;
involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.
The King, when he designed you for my guard,
Resolved he would not make my bondage hard.
--Dryden.
2. Obligation; tie of duty.
He must resolve by no means to be . . . brought
under the bondage of onserving oaths. --South.
3. (Old Eng. Law) Villenage; tenure of land on condition of
doing the meanest services for the owner.
Syn: Thralldom; bond service; imprisonment.
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