Word Meanings - THRALDOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The condition of a thrall; slavery; bondage; state of servitude. Women are born to thraldom and penance And to be under man's governance. Chaucer. He shall rule, and she in thraldom live. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of THRALDOM)

• Bondage
• Servitude
• confinement
• imprisonment
• incarceration
• subjection
• serfdom
• thraldom
• captivity
• slavery

Related words: (words related to THRALDOM)

• INCARCERATION
  1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. Glanvill. Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia. A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
• SUBJECTION
  1. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale. 2. The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government
• BONDAGE
  Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner. Syn. -- Thralldom; bond service; imprisonment. (more info) 1. The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty
• CAPTIVITY
  1. The state of being a captive or a prisoner. More celebrated in his captivity that in his greatest triumphs. Dryden. 2. A state of being under control; subjection of the will or affections; bondage. Sink in the soft captivity together. Addison.
• THRALDOM
  The condition of a thrall; slavery; bondage; state of servitude. Women are born to thraldom and penance And to be under man's governance. Chaucer. He shall rule, and she in thraldom live. Dryden.
• IMPRISONMENT
  The act of imprisoning, or the state of being imprisoned; confinement; restraint. His sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common
• CONFINEMENT
  1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by
• SLAVERY
  1. The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught! Sterne. I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this
• BONDAGER
  A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field.
• SERVITUDE
  A right whereby one thing is subject to another thing or person for use or convenience, contrary to the common right. Note: The object of a servitude is either to suffer something to be done by another, or to omit to do something, with respect to
• INSUBJECTION
  Want of subjection or obedience; a state of disobedience, as to government.
• VAGABONDAGE
  The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.
• RESUBJECTION
  A second subjection.
• REIMPRISONMENT
  The act of reimprisoning, or the state of being reimprisoned.
• ANTISLAVERY
  Opposed to slavery. -- n.
• PROSLAVERY
  Favoring slavery. -- n.
• SERFAGE; SERFDOM
  The state or condition of a serf.