bondslave

American  

[bond-sleyv] / ˈbɒndˌsleɪv /

noun

1. a person held in bondage.

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Etymology

Origin of bondslave

First recorded in 1555–65; bond ² + slave

Example Sentences

Love, which is the soul of art—Love, the bondslave of Beauty and the son of Poverty by Craft—led him to these triumphs.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington

Semifonte had been told of his bondslave, and Palamone's hour of triumph was at hand.

From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

The angel of the better nature is bondslave to the worst.

From The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service by Hillis, Newell Dwight

Despised bondslave, since my lord doth hate   These locks, why keep I them or hold them dear?

From Jerusalem Delivered by Fairfax, Edward

She told me that she had been the bondslave, I think, for four or five years, of a certain besetting sin, and her first letter was the very utterance of despair.

From Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881 by Booth, Catherine Mumford