bond servant

or bond-servant

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noun
  1. a person who serves in bondage; slave.

  2. a person bound to service without wages.

Origin of bond servant

1
First recorded in 1525–35

Words Nearby bond servant

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How to use bond servant in a sentence

  • The consciousness of being no longer a bond-servant sweetens all my toils.

    Haydn | J. Cuthbert Hadden
  • The free man is more alert to obligation, more conscientious in performance, than the bond servant.

    Mobilizing Woman-Power | Harriot Stanton Blatch
  • She asked not to be acknowledged as his parent, but only to live with him, even as a bond servant, if he willed it.

    Malaeska | Ann S. Stephens
  • The man who marries a woman for her money is a white slave, a bond servant, a travesty on manhood.

    The Widow | Helen Rowland
  • He was to all intents and purposes bond servant to an enemy of his country.

British Dictionary definitions for bondservant

bondservant

/ (ˈbɒndˌsɜːvənt) /


noun
  1. a serf or slave

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