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Bondage

Bondage Meaning & Definition
Bondage Definition And Meaning

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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