bondage

Definitions


[ˈbɒndɪdʒ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the state of being a slave
(e.g: the deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt's bondage)

- sexual practice that involves the tying up or restraining of one partner


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English: from Anglo-Latin bondagium, from Middle English bond ‘serf’ (earlier ‘peasant, householder’), from Old Norse bóndi ‘tiller of the soil’, based on búa ‘dwell’; influenced in sense by bond




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