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bondage Definition

bond·age (bän′dij)

noun

  1. serfdom or slavery
  2. subjection to some force, compulsion, or influence; specif., physical restraint as a sadomasochistic technique
  3. villeinage

Etymology: ME < Anglo-L bondagium < OE bonda < ON bonde, orig. prp. of bua, to prepare, inhabit, akin to Ger bauen, to build < IE base *bheu-, to grow, develop > be, Sans bhū-, earth, Gr phyein, to grow

bondage Synonyms

bondage

n.

slavery, servitude, thralldom, subjugation; see slavery 1. See syn. study at slavery.

bondage Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • break: It is about breaking the bondage of tunnel vision.
  • have: There's a sense in which I still have a certain bondage.

Adjective modifier

  • Egyptian: Moses is summoned by God to give the people the law ( there is no mention of the Egyptian bondage.
  • bitter: For thirteen long years Joseph knew what bitter bondage meant.
  • spiritual: In terms of eternity, spiritual bondage is far worse than any political bondage.
  • hard: The Hebrews ' lives were made bitter with their hard bondage.
  • strong: Richie fits 100 percent and you can feel the strong bondage and the vibes between all group members.
  • great: The Eucharist, then, is a remembrance of God's deliverance of His people from the greater bondage of sin.

Modifies a noun

  • trouser: You could be hung by your bondage trousers for less.
  • gear: Looks like a teddy bear with a peg leg in bondage gear?
  • tape: It's got to score points alone just for containing bondage tape hasn't it?
  • furniture: With the exception of the bondage furniture we aim to have every item in stock and ready to ship.

Noun used with modifier

  • debt: Debt bondage is the most common form of slavery in the modern world.
  • rope: Next, she possesses all the traditional skills from rope bondage to cunning delivery of CP.

Preposition: in

  • case: A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

Preposition: of

  • corruption: The creation shall then be " delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
  • sin: In Christ the bondage of sin has been lifted.
  • fear: It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
  • will: The trouble is, as Martin Luther said in the 16th century, there is a " bondage of the will " .

Preposition: with

  • inkjet: This material with white appearance has strong bondage with inkjet receptive coating, flexo printing.
bondage Quotes

'Cause some make forfeit of their name, And slave themselves to man's desire; Shall the sex free From guilt, damn'd to the bondage be?

—Habington,William

Leave all things behind, and come unto me for thy salvation. I will make thee free from the bondage of sins. Fear no more.

—Bhagavad Gita

Asthe friend of the negro assumes that one man cannot, by right, hold another in bondage, should the friend of woman assume that man cannot, by right, lay even well- meant restrictions on woman.

—Fuller, (Sarah) Margaret, Marchioness Ossoli

There is onlyone cure for the evilswhichnewlyacquired freedom produces; and that is freedom† The blaze of truth and liberty mayat first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bondage. But let them gaze on, and they will soon be able to bear it.

—1st Baron

And God spake all these words, saying,Iamthe L thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that isinheaven above, or that isin the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the L thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Thoushalt nottakethename of the L thy God invain; for the L will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Remember thesabbath day, to keep it holy. Six daysthou shalt labour and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the L thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the L made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the L blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long uponthelandwhichtheL thy Godgiveththee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

—Bible (Old Testament)

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

—Bible (NewTestament)

That sweet bondage which is freedom's self.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe