bondage
IPA: bˈɑndɪdʒ
noun
- The state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery.
- (by extension) The state of lacking freedom; constraint.
- (sex) The practice of physically restraining people for sexual pleasure, such as by tying up or shackling.
- (attributive) Applied to clothing with many buckles, zips, etc., associated with punk and goth subcultures.
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Examples of "bondage" in Sentences
- Maugham had savaged the school in Of Human Bondage.
- Light bondage and spanking is part of the BDSM spectrum.
- A key concept is the Exodus, the liberation of people in bondage.
- Debt Bondage was terminated by Solon the ruler of Greece at the time.
- I notice that there already is an article on On the Bondage of the Will.
- Bondage and discipline is then perhaps the hardest of the three to define.
- Salutations to the destroyer and to the protector of all beings in bondage.
- The eating of bitter herbs symbolized the miseries of the Egyptian bondage.
- The anointing breaks the yoke of bondage and so the anointing is on the word.
- A variation to the hogtie is to tie the ankles to suitably tied elbow bondage.
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