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bondslave

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[bond-slayv] / ˈbɒndˌsleɪv /

noun

  1. a person held in bondage.


Etymology

Origin of bondslave

First recorded in 1555–65; bond 2 + slave


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PHW #28 228 “O bondslave of the world! ... returned whence it came.”

From The Summons of the Lord of Hosts by Bahá'u'lláh

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

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

Whatever happened to me in the future, whether or no I was to labour as her bondslave for all my days, for that one moment I was her master.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

But, bondslave, I know neither day nor night;   Whether she murth'ring sleep, or saving wake; Now broyl'd ith' zone of her reflected light,   Then frose, my isicles, not sinews shake.

From The Lucasta Poems by Richard Lovelace

I could not have waited for him all my life here, toiling ignominiously like a bondslave.

From The King of the Dark Chamber by Rabindranath Tagore

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