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Meanings of thraldom in English

Portuguese
escravidão
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esclavatge

The state of being under the control of another person.

        escravidão
        Usage of thraldom in English
        1
        The man of taste willingly escapes the gross thraldom of the appetites.
        Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller
        2
        He saw himself freed from the menace of the thraldom of Mrs.
        Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.)
        3
        And they had liefer die than be under the yoke of thraldom.
        Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
        4
        Heavy-wet and gin: alas, these are not the only kinds of thraldom.
        Past and Present
        5
        He made one last heroic effort to break his chain of thraldom.
        Kenny
        6
        Here, in this paltry Rome, Where naught exists but thraldom and oppression?
        Early Plays — Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans
        7
        Or had nocturnal loves misguided her, in thraldom to a paramour's embrace?
        The Extant Odes of Pindar / Translated with Introduction and Sho...
        8
        That was the question that held six minds in the thraldom of curiosity.
        The High School Boys' Fishing Trip
        9
        And the thraldom increased as the mind and the experience narrowed.
        The Daughters of Danaus
        10
        That golden liquid releases the mind from the thraldom of the worn-out body.
        The Gold Trail
        11
        We are here placed in a mere scene of spiritual thraldom and restraint.
        Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists
        12
        They must arrest the career of South American deliverance from thraldom.
        The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858
        13
        But Hadria held that everybody was more or less subject to the thraldom.
        The Daughters of Danaus
        14
        So the ballet girl was Degas' escapement from the thraldom of common knowledge.
        Modern Painting
        15
        Should the bishop now be re-petticoated, his thraldom would be complete and forever.
        Barchester Towers
        16
        I would not free it from its thraldom, if I could.
        Jane Talbot
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        Portuguese
        escravidãojugo
        Thraldom through the time
        Thraldom across language varieties
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