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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enslavements

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

From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2020

Knowing his own people to the bottom of their hearts, he realized how easily such enslavements could be carried out—particularly in troubled times.

From Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

No wonder they kept hunting fifteen years for the man responsible for the Loki enslavements.

From Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper

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

And that is the only liberty,—a transfer of allegiance, a higher attachment, which sets free from the lower enslavements of life.

From Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion by Francis Greenwood Peabody

Related Words

• servitude
• slavery