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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bondage \Bond"age\, n. [LL. bondagium See {Bond}, a.] 1. The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity. The King, when he designed you for my guard, Resolved he would not make my bondage hard. --Dryden. 2. Obligation; tie of duty. He must resolve by no means to be . . . brought under the bondage of onserving oaths. --South. 3. (Old Eng. Law) Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner. Syn: Thralldom; bond service; imprisonment. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: bondage n : the state of being under the control of another person [syn: {slavery}, {thrall}, {thralldom}, {thraldom}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Bondage of Israel in Egypt (Ex. 2:23, 25; 5), which is called the "house of bondage" (13:3; 20:2). This word is used also with reference to the captivity in Babylon (Isa. 14:3), and the oppression of the Persian king (Ezra 9:8, 9).
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