bondwoman
[ bond-woom-uhn ]
noun,plural bond·wom·en.
a female slave.
Origin of bondwoman
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How to use bondwoman in a sentence
The unhappy bondwoman gazed at her with an expression of intense misery, which she was never afterward able to forget.
Mrs. Lawton, unaccustomed to any remonstrance from her bondwoman, seized a switch and shook it threateningly.
In their thoughts she was merely a bondwoman taken from the heathen, and consigned to their keeping for their uses.
The Holy Ghost contemptuously calls the admirers of the Law the children of the bondwoman.
Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians | Martin LutherSarah's demand that the bondwoman and her son be cast out of the house was undoubtedly a blow to Abraham.
Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians | Martin Luther
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