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Definition of servitude in English: servitudenounˈsəːvɪtjuːdˈsərvəˌt(j)ud mass noun1The state of being a slave or completely subject to someone more powerful. 奴役状态;屈从地位 you've got thousands of years of peasant servitude to make up for Example sentencesExamples - It begins with a grieving boy beside his father's funeral pyre, who is claimed by a worryingly uncouth uncle and taken away to a grim new life of servitude.
- A freed slave could be returned to servitude for helping a slave escape or for striking a white.
- Those born into servitude, however benign and remote the oppression may seem, cannot know fully what it is to be free until the day of liberation actually dawns.
- Those it has aided praise its efforts, saying it saved them from a lifetime of domestic abuse and virtual servitude.
- All that cruelty and bloodshed had produced nothing; the Free State was, according to Ryan, worse than English servitude.
- Tens of millions of human souls were transported from their homes in Africa under appalling conditions to lives of servitude in the Americas.
- Many of the slaves are seen as passive, enjoying their servitude with a crude, animalistic joy.
- The stronger ones would be sold into slavery or servitude.
- Her status as slave condemns her to a life of servitude, with little or no control over her future.
- Children are the worst victims of bondage and servitude.
- We have all sold our kidneys to pay off a debt so that we can save our families from indentured servitude.
- In the millennium before the Communist party revolution, it was an antidote to a life of female servitude.
- Eventually, the young monk must choose between love and desire and religious servitude.
- The term of servitude in the United States was for life; slaves couldn't buy their freedom.
- For $100, for example, you can save a young girl from a life of indentured servitude.
- The only way to do that was to send Martha into servitude!
- Domestic servitude has only been escaped by passing it down to another cadre of oppressed women.
- It has a price, and that price is arbitrary forced servitude to the state.
- America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude, or that any human being aspires to live at the mercy of bullies.
- Jordan was the first in his family to escape such servitude.
Synonyms slavery, enslavement, bondage, subjugation, subjection, domination literary thraldom historical serfdom, vassalage 2Law archaic The subjection of property to an easement. 〔律〕〈古〉地役权;使用权 Example sentencesExamples - Land includes buildings and other structures, land covered with water, and any estate, interest, easement, servitude in or over land.
- Baronial jurisdiction was abolished, as was personal servitude, but dues and services attached to land tenure remained unless they were redeemed.
OriginLate Middle English: via Old French from Latin servitudo, from servus 'slave'. Definition of servitude in US English: servitudenounˈsərvəˌt(y)o͞odˈsərvəˌt(j)ud 1The state of being a slave or completely subject to someone more powerful. 奴役状态;屈从地位 Example sentencesExamples - Those born into servitude, however benign and remote the oppression may seem, cannot know fully what it is to be free until the day of liberation actually dawns.
- All that cruelty and bloodshed had produced nothing; the Free State was, according to Ryan, worse than English servitude.
- It has a price, and that price is arbitrary forced servitude to the state.
- In the millennium before the Communist party revolution, it was an antidote to a life of female servitude.
- Jordan was the first in his family to escape such servitude.
- We have all sold our kidneys to pay off a debt so that we can save our families from indentured servitude.
- The only way to do that was to send Martha into servitude!
- Many of the slaves are seen as passive, enjoying their servitude with a crude, animalistic joy.
- Children are the worst victims of bondage and servitude.
- Eventually, the young monk must choose between love and desire and religious servitude.
- The term of servitude in the United States was for life; slaves couldn't buy their freedom.
- America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude, or that any human being aspires to live at the mercy of bullies.
- Her status as slave condemns her to a life of servitude, with little or no control over her future.
- Domestic servitude has only been escaped by passing it down to another cadre of oppressed women.
- Tens of millions of human souls were transported from their homes in Africa under appalling conditions to lives of servitude in the Americas.
- It begins with a grieving boy beside his father's funeral pyre, who is claimed by a worryingly uncouth uncle and taken away to a grim new life of servitude.
- A freed slave could be returned to servitude for helping a slave escape or for striking a white.
- Those it has aided praise its efforts, saying it saved them from a lifetime of domestic abuse and virtual servitude.
- For $100, for example, you can save a young girl from a life of indentured servitude.
- The stronger ones would be sold into slavery or servitude.
Synonyms slavery, enslavement, bondage, subjugation, subjection, domination - 1.1Law archaic The subjection of property to an easement.
〔律〕〈古〉地役权;使用权 Example sentencesExamples - Baronial jurisdiction was abolished, as was personal servitude, but dues and services attached to land tenure remained unless they were redeemed.
- Land includes buildings and other structures, land covered with water, and any estate, interest, easement, servitude in or over land.
OriginLate Middle English: via Old French from Latin servitudo, from servus ‘slave’. |