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单词 re-enslave
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re-enslavev.

Brit. /ˌriːᵻnˈsleɪv/, /ˌriːɛnˈsleɪv/, U.S. /ˌriᵻnˈsleɪv/, /ˌriɛnˈsleɪv/
Forms: see re- prefix and enslave v.; also 1800s reënslave.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, enslave v.
Etymology: < re- prefix + enslave v.
transitive. To enslave (a person, race, nation, etc.) again.
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society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > be slave of [verb (transitive)] > enslave > again
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1642 E. Calamy Gods Free Mercy Eng. 25 Now if we prove unthankfull after all these mercies, wee may justly expect to be re-inslaved.
1691 T. Beverley Thousand Years' Kingdom 3 It would be wholly impossible to Re-inslave these Nations.
a1699 J. Beaumont Conscience in Minor Poems (1914) 101 Traytor as he was, Soone after did desire to passe, And reinslave him selfe to Vanitie.
1713 E. Ward Hist. Grand Rebellion I. 1 When Popish Priestcraft in a cruel Reign, Had reinslav'd the Nation once again.
1740 H. Walpole Epist. from Florence in Coll. of Poems (1763) III. 83 Twice did usurping Rome extend her hand To reinslave the new-deliver'd land.
1807 W. Hazlitt Polit. Ess. (1819) 406 If this increase would be an evil..the re-enslaving the country would be a good.
1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 95 A man who had been free, but..was reënslaved.
1877 G. R. Stetson Southern Negro as He Is 28 The object and purpose of the whites was to re-enslave them.
1903 W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk ix. 179 The first and almost universal device was to use the courts as a means of reenslaving the blacks.
1998 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 June 64/1 Southern blacks were effectively reenslaved through the sharecropping system.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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