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bondwoman

[ bond-woom-uhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural bond·wom·en.

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English bonde womman; bond ², woman

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.

Sarah's demand that the bondwoman and her son be cast out of the house was undoubtedly a blow to Abraham.

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