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bondslave

American  
[bond-sleyv] / ˈbɒndˌsleɪv /

noun

  1. a person held in bondage.


Etymology

Origin of bondslave

First recorded in 1555–65; bond 2 + slave

Example Sentences

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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 Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

You are his bondslave, but not I by Pan!

From Theocritus, translated into English Verse by Theocritus

Have ruth on one distraught, the bondslave of your love, Sorry      and sick and full of longings ever new.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by Payne, John

John Mackenzie, 2 schoolmaster, had been a bondslave of books in that country for four obscure, well-nigh profitless years, and he was done with them for a while.

From The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)

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

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

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