Meaning of BONDAGE
| Pronunciation: | | 'bândij
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- [n] sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners
- [n] the state of being under the control of another person
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| | Synonyms: | | slavery, thraldom, thrall, thralldom |
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| | See Also: | | captivity, enslavement, servitude, sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice | |
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| | Definition: | |  Bondage
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Bond"age\, n. [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) Villenage; tenure of land on condition of
doing the meanest services for the owner.
Syn: Thralldom; bond service; imprisonment.
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| | Definition: | | Dreaming that you are in bondage means that aspects of your emotions and/or character are too tightly controlled or that are repressed. You may be restricting your need for self-expression or feel that you are a prisoner of your circumstances.
In a sexual sense, dreams of bondage represents your desires to be more sexually submissive or that you have unacknowledged sexual passions. |
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| Easton Bible Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | of Israel in Egypt (Ex. 2:23, 25; 5), which is called the "house of bondage" (13:3; 20:2). This word is used also with reference to the captivity in Babylon (Isa. 14:3), and the oppression of the Persian king (Ezra 9:8, 9). |
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| | Related Terms: | | absolutism, bond service, captivity, control, debt slavery, deprivation of freedom, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, domination, enslavement, enthrallment, feudalism, feudality, helotism, helotry, indentureship, peonage, restraint, serfdom, serfhood, servility, servitude, slavery, subjection, subjugation, thrall, thralldom, tyranny, vassalage, villenage, yoke |
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