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enthralment|ɛnˈθrɔːlmənt|
[f. enthral v. + -ment.]
The action of enthralling; the state of being enthralled; slavery; sometimes in pl. Chiefly fig.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xvi. §21 The King of France might seeme to haue sustained a grieuous losse by the enthralment of this Duke. 1636tr. Florus 258 Cataline..was thrust into a treason for inthralment of his native Countrey. 1645Milton Tetrach. (1851) 187 Ther can be neither peace, nor joy, nor love, but an enthrallment. 1794G. Wakefield Dk. of York 33 To weep over the enthralment of our species. 1805Wordsw. Prel. (1850) 87 Life, In its late course of even days with all Their smooth enthralment. 1818Keats Endym. i. 798 There are..enthralments far More self-destroying. 1828D'Israeli Chas. I, I. iv. 77 This tenderness in all probability was but the temporary enthralment of the eyes. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. V. Index 545 [Religious freedom] rises from inthralments of the hand of violence. |