enslavementn.
The action of enslaving; the state of being enslaved.
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1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 536 Returning to a fresh Enslavement to their Enemies.
1821 New Monthly Mag. 2 136 The unjust enslavement of Italy.
1839 J. Brenan (title) Old and New Logic, shewing how Lord Bacon delivered the Mind from its 2000 years' Enslavement under Aristotle.
1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VIII. ii. lxvii. 498 How lamentably they [sc. Greek philosophers] were hampered by enslavement to the popular phraseology.
1861 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 2) Introd. p. xxi No alternations of enslavement and emancipation.
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