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servitude [ˈsɜːvɪˌtjuːd] n 1. the state or condition of a slave; bondage 2. the state or condition of being subjected to or dominated by a person or thing servitude to drink 3. (Law) Law a burden attaching to an estate for the benefit of an adjoining estate or of some definite person See also easement 4. (Law) short for penal servitude [via Old French from Latin servitūdō, from servus a slave] Servitude slaves or servants, collectively, 1667. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
servitude noun (Formal) slavery, bondage, enslavement, bonds, chains, obedience, thrall, subjugation, serfdom, vassalage, thraldom a life of servitude Translations servitude n → Knechtschaft f n servitude [ˈsəːvitjuːd] the state of being a slave Their lives were spent in servitude. slawerny رِق، عُبودِيَّه робство otroctví slaveri die Sklaverei δουλεία, σκλαβιά servidumbre orjus بندگي؛بردگي orjuus esclavage עַבדוּת दासता, गुलामी ropstvo, robovanje (rab)szolgaság hidup sebagai budak þrældómur schiavitù 奴れい状態 노에 상태 vergystė, vergavimas verdzība; kalpība perhambaan slavernij slaveri, trelldom niewola servidão sclavie рабство otroctvo suženjstvo ropstvo träldom, slaveri ความเป็นทาส; ภาวะจำยอม kölelik 被奴役 рабство, поневолення غلامی sự quy phục 奴役状态 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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"If servitude is a high honour," the Gentleman said, "it would be indecent for me to seek it; and if obtained by my own exertion it would be no honour. In the third place are liberatores, or salvatores, such as compound the long miseries of civil wars, or deliver their countries from servitude of strangers or tyrants; as Augustus Caesar, Vespasianus, Aurelianus, Theodoricus, King Henry the Seventh of England, King Henry the Fourth of France. Then followed four years of penal servitude, spent in the company of common criminals in Siberia, where he began the "Dead House," and some years of service in a disciplinary battalion. |
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