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UK
/ɛnslˈeɪvmənt/
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[ US /ɛnˈsɫeɪvmənt/ ]
[ US /ɛnˈsɫeɪvmənt/ ]
NOUN
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the state of being a slave
So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity - the act of making slaves of your captives
How To Use enslavement In A Sentence
- I prayerfully beseech you to seek help, and I assure you that your present enslavement to homosexuality can be remedied. Alberta judge rules anti-gay letter not hate speech, overturns ruling « Anglican Samizdat
- Allied energies focused on mobility and prefabrication, while the Nazis aimed for "enslavement and extermination. Building for War
- The main method is national assistance, including reduction of rent for land and of enslavement, lighten punishment, relief, supply doctors and medicines, bury corpses, etc.
- Worrying about impressing people is enslavement. Christianity Today
- Confronted now with the possibility of ridding the world of a tyrant, they opt for further enslavement of his subjects.
- Liberating people from enslavement is worth the price of war, to Denton. Denton, Jeremiah A.
- One pointed out that the good reverend is using the same book against gays, that was once used to justify enslavement of his ancestors. Think Progress » All the funding for anti-marriage equality campaign in the nation’s capital came from outside of D.C.
- What is much more alarming is the apparent acquiescence - even complicity - of the nation in its own enslavement.
- It makes little difference to the serf whether he's captive of a domestic tyrant or a foreign one, his enslavement is the same. Bush: I'm Commander In Chief, Screw Your Rights
- Vaslav Nijinsky rose to stardom as the golden slave in Diaghilev’s ballet, Scheherazade, appearing “in brown body paint, and grinning, and wound with pearls — not so much as a sex object but as sex itself, with all the accouterments of perversity that the fin-de-siècle imagination could supply: exotism, androgyny, enslavement, violence.” Scheherazade Goes West