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servitude

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ser·vi·tude  (sûrv-td, -tyd)
n.
1.
a. A state of subjection to an owner or master.
b. Lack of personal freedom, as to act as one chooses.
2. Forced labor imposed as a punishment for crime: penal servitude in labor camps.
3. Law A right that grants use of another's property.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin servitd, from Latin servus, slave.]

servitude
Noun
Formal
1. slavery or bondage
2. the state or condition of being completely dominated [Latin servus a slave]

Servitude slaves or servants, collectively, 1667.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.servitudeservitude - state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment; "penal servitude"
villainage, villeinage - the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf
slavery, thraldom, thrall, thralldom, bondage - the state of being under the control of another person

servitude
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servitude
n servitude [ˈsəːvitjuːd]
the state of being a slave Their lives were spent in servitude.slawernyرِق، عُبودِيَّهробствоotroctvíslaveridie Sklavereiδουλεία, σκλαβιάservidumbreorjusبندگي؛بردگيorjuusesclavageעַבדוּתदासता, गुलामीropstvo, robovanje(rab)szolgasághidup sebagai budakþrældómurschiavitù奴れい状態노예 상태vergystė, vergavimasverdzība; kalpībaperhambaanslavernijslaveri, trelldomniewolaservidãosclavieрабствоotroctvosuženjstvoropstvoträldom, slaveriความเป็นทาส; ภาวะจำยอมkölelik奴役狀態рабство, поневоленняغلامیsự quy phục

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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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