单词 | enslaving |
释义 | enslavingn. The action, process, or fact of enslaving a person, group, nation, etc. (in various senses of the verb). ΘΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > enslavement thirling1535 mancipation1577 enthraldom1582 esclavishing1583 enthralment1595 enthralling1603 beslaving1641 enslavement1692 1629 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Eight Bks. Peloponnesian Warre v. 306 The Lacedaemonians had made a Peace..with the Athenians, their heretofore mortall enemies, tending not to the benefit, but to the enslauing [Fr. pour les remettre en seruitude] of Peloponnesus. 1771 Considerations Policy, Commerce & Circumstances of Kingdom xxi. 325 Subservient parliaments, an overbearing nobility,..[and] a self-seeking clergy,..effectually contributed to the enslaving of the French. 1889 Polit. Sci. Q. 4 326 The ordinance also contained the famous prohibition of slavery—which was..interpreted to prohibit the importation of slaves and the enslaving of negroes born after July 13, 1787. 1929 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 14 448 He remarked that the enslaving of Africans was a disgrace to the Protestant religion. 2015 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (Nexis) 12 Mar. (Opinion & Insight section) 12 With historic revisionism rife and a refusal to properly come to terms with issues like the enslaving of women to provide sex for imperial soldiers, it is inevitable that wounds remain open. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2022). < n.1629 |
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