enslavements

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of enslavement.
  enslavement

  noun

  the act of taking or holding someone as a slave.

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Plagues, earthquakes, wars, enslavements, revolts and volcanic eruptions have played outsize roles in its dramatic history.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2020

Interminable alterations of peace and war, enslavements and emancipations—Why?

From Manhood of Humanity. by Alfred Korzybski

Marriages, divorces, inheritances, enslavements, disputes, etc., are all considered in this account, obtained by the Franciscan Juan de Plasencia from the natives.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 16 of 55 1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

Many of those who listened were refugees from the old world, having fled its oppressions and enslavements.

From Jimmie Higgins by Upton Sinclair

Do not admire languid limbs and pouting lips and the signs of haughtiness and vanity, your own enslavements.

From They Call Me Carpenter by Upton Sinclair

Related Words

• servitude
• slavery