thralldom
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Etymology edit
From Middle English thraldom, þraldom; equivalent to thrall + -dom. Compare Danish trældom, Norwegian trelldom, Swedish träldom.
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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.
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a state of bondage, slavery, or subjugation to another person
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