enslavement
(ɛnˈsleɪvmənt)
[f. enslave v. + -ment.]
The action of enslaving; the state of being enslaved.
| 1692 South Serm. (1697) I. 474 Returning to a fresh Enslavement to their Enemies. 1821 New Monthly Mag. II. 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. 1844 Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. (1862) Introd. 21 No alternations of enslavement and emancipation. 1849 Grote Greece ii. lxvii. (1862) VI. 67 How lamentably they [Greek philosophers] were hampered by enslavement to the popular phraseology. |