thralldom
IPA: θrˈɔɫdʌm
noun
- A state of bondage, slavery, or subjugation to another person.
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Examples of "thralldom" in Sentences
- I always end up in this kind of thralldom to my characters.
- Thralldom is a noun meaning the state of being in bondage; slavery; servitude.
- Years later, he described "a state of thralldom ... experiencing tremors day and night."
- The butterfly tattoo on her left cheek caught my eye, a visible reminder of her thralldom.
- Conversely, they can ponder with you what is not even contemplated by District residents because of their thralldom to the Congressional veto.
- He used to have a seventh thrall, an ex-stripper named Ebony, but Eric packed her and her two kids up and sent them to live out at Orchard Lake with the werewolves, then released her from thralldom.
- Alone and agonizingly thirsty, the boy's thoughts travel through his violent past: his father's gruesome murder, his twin sister's abduction, his own thralldom to gangster culture: Everything I remember is too vivid.
- This book is such a perfect send-up of the primary Heinlein themes, and such a jaundiced/humorous take on where the genre's thralldom to Heinlein has taken the field that it is practically a manifesto and declaration of independence for those who are critical of "traditional" SF.
- The subject of women held in thralldom to men by mysterious powers came to mind the other day when I read the story of Elizabeth Smart, author of the prose poem or the poetic novella By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, a perfervid retelling of her infatuation and affair with George Granville Barker, a poet who had achieved success at the age of 18.
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