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Definition of bondage : 1. Obligation; tie of duty.
2. The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.
3. Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.

Synonyms:

abolitionist, study at slavery, gyves, villeinage, handcuffs, masochism, slave trade, helotry, sadism, over, reliance, imprisonment, perversion, surrender, servitude, shackles, dependence, durance, pedophilia, custody, enfranchise, enslave, prisoner, captivity, fetishism, slave, servileness, yoke, bestiality, fetter, bonds, sexual abuse, manacles, freeborn, irons, chains, incest, slaveholding, sadomasochism, capture, thraldom, slaver, thralldom, duress

control, constraint, restriction, leash, inhibition, bridle, detention, blockage, constriction, detainment, stricture, impediment, hindrance, collar, tether, restraint, shackle, confinement

obedience, deference, slavery, service, subjugation, subjection, supineness, submission, enslavement, serfdom, subordination, thrall, compliance, servility, subservience

Usage examples:

• Oh, for freedom, that I might hasten to rescue her from the bondage she detests! - "The Prime Minister", W.H.G. Kingston.
• The bondage became, I expect, no real bondage at all. - "Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France", Edmund Gosse.
• But in Persia the Jews are subject to hard bondage and suffering. - "The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela", Benjamin of Tudela.