thralldom
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English thraldom, þraldom; equivalent to thrall + -dom. Compare Danish trældom, Norwegian trelldom, Swedish träldom.
Pronunciation
Noun
thralldom (countable and uncountable, plural thralldoms)
- A state of bondage, slavery, or subjugation to another person.
- Synonym: thrall
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- For ye into like thraldome me did throw,
And kept from complishing the faith which I did owe.
- c. 1625–1632 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Broken Heart. A Tragedy. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Hugh Beeston, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, signatures B, verso – B2, recto:
- Beauteous Penthea […] is novv ſo yoak'd / To a moſt barbarous thraldome, miſery, / Affliction, that [s]he ſauors not humanity.
Translations
state of bondage, slavery, or subjugation to another person
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