| 释义 |
enslavement|ɛnˈsleɪvmənt|
[f. enslave v. + -ment.]
The action of enslaving; the state of being enslaved.
1692South Serm. (1697) I. 474 Returning to a fresh Enslavement to their Enemies. 1821New Monthly Mag. II. 136 The unjust enslavement of Italy. 1839J. Brenan (title), Old and New Logic, shewing how Lord Bacon delivered the Mind from its 2000 years' Enslavement under Aristotle. 1844Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. (1862) Introd. 21 No alternations of enslavement and emancipation. 1849Grote Greece ii. lxvii. (1862) VI. 67 How lamentably they [Greek philosophers] were hampered by enslavement to the popular phraseology. |