BONDAGE

bondage

(noun) sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners

bondage, slavery, thrall, thralldom, thraldom

(noun) the state of being under the control of another person

bondage

(noun) the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power; “he was in bondage to fear”; “he sought release from his bondage to Satan”; “a self freed from the bondage of time”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

bondage (countable and uncountable, plural bondages)

The state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery.

(by extension) The state of lacking freedom; constraint.

The practice of tying people up for sexual pleasure.

(attributive) Applied to clothing with many buckles, zips, etc, associated with punk and goth subcultures.

Antonyms

• freedom

Anagrams

• dogbane, endobag, gone bad

Source: Wiktionary

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Bond"age, n. Etym: [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)

Definition: Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.

Syn.

– Thralldom; bond service; imprisonment.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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