servitude
IPA: sˈɝvʌtud
noun
- The state of being a slave; slavery; being forced to work for others or do their bidding without one's consent or against one's will, either in perpetuity or for a period of time over which one has little or no control.
- (law) A qualified beneficial interest severed or fragmented from the ownership of an inferior property and attached to a superior property or to some person other than the owner; the most common form is an easement.
- (dated) Service rendered in the army or navy.
- (obsolete) Servants collectively.
- (archaic) The act of serving (food or drink, etc.); service.
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Examples of "servitude" in Sentences
- The abjectness of their servitude is incomprehensible to us.
- Keep building up the national debt and we will be in servitude before long.
- They think that they are the elites and the enlightened ones that require servitude from the peasant-looking Hoosiers.
- Erika Five is fresh out of the vat from which she was spawned and is given a crash course in servitude and classism as Victor's wife.
- It is usually white delusion that makes us think they'd select the name of someone who kept them in servitude and destroyed their family unit.
- The reason outlaw peonage, slavery, sweatshops, pimping, and other forms of bound servitude is because they are a logical extension of a market economy and will always exist if they are not outlawed.
- In our country, May 27th is a day for celebration, a day when the people of Guadeloupe remember the struggle led by Ignace, Delgrès, Masoto and Solitude for the liberation of Guadeloupeans, who were held in servitude by the French colonialists.
- The German Garden is no longer divided and should not be allowed to be fully owned and held in servitude of the Empire, but must be set free of that ownership and servitude, with the German soil, made that of the German people and only the German people, its fruits that of the German people, free of the past division and Empire troops of occupation.
- “To say that the systematic condemnation of millions to bondage and generation upon generation to servitude is ‘not significant,’ or that the tearing apart of families and the selling of human beings as cattle ‘doesn't amount to diddly’ is outrageous for any public official to say, let alone a man Republicans have placed in a position of leadership.”
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