thraldom
- a variation of thralldom.
Example Sentences
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You'll be irritated not enraged, and will find its thraldom easy to resist.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2011
But they did bear it, and with magnanimity, until time and circumstance worked the cure, and delivered them from that thraldom of the mind more galling than any servitude of the body.
From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous
You may imagine with what feelings I saw myself emancipated from this thraldom, and free to proclaim 'liberty to the captive, and the opening of prison doors to them that were bound.'
From The Freedmen's Book by Child, Lydia Maria Francis
Ah, Constance, Constance, we came here to escape the thraldom of men, but to do that it needs that no men came!
From A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Taggart, Marion Ames
To possess the person of the Emperor was doubtless pleasing to the possessor--a trump card--but those who did not possess him felt his thraldom bitterly.
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis