slavedom

Etymology

From slave + -dom.

noun

  1. A region or realm where slavery exists.
    The puny and selfish potentates of earth may sue for slavedoms and win them, but emancipators and benefactors like these will live in perpetually augmented glory, […] 1849, Elias Lyman Magoon, Republican Christianity
  2. The condition or state of being a slave; slavery.
    My concern however, is to break those chains of slavedom. 1976, W. Abraham Jerome, W. Abraham Jerome, National Agrarianism
    The supposed equality of the South, he argued, was "not the equality of citizens, but of so many masterships or slavedoms. […]" 2000, Susan-Mary Grant, North over South
    […] But we offer you equality: at least equality in slavedom; if you are to be slaves, at least you can be slaves to your own color and race and religion. 2004, William Faulkner, James B. Meriwether, Essays, speeches, and public letters
  3. Enslavement; bondage.
    But this is not the new meaning of the word chaos that we are driving up to. There exists an infinitely strong and fast vibration in the soul—a kind of ultra-hyper-chaos—that lets it resonate in love and in the overcoming of slavedom. 2000, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, American studies

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