bondage
pronunciation
How to pronounce bondage in British English:
UK [ˈbɒndɪdʒ]
How to pronounce bondage in American English:
US [ˈbɑːndɪdʒ]
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- Noun:
- the state of being under the control of another person
- sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners
Word Origin
- bondage (n.)
- c. 1300, "condition of a serf or slave," from Anglo-Latin bondagium, from Middle English bond "a serf, tenant farmer," from Old English bonda "householder," from Old Norse boandi "free-born farmer," noun use of present participle of boa "dwell, prepare, inhabit," from PIE *bhow-, from root *bheue- "to be, exist, dwell" (see be). Meaning in English changed by influence of bond. The sexual sado-masochism sense is recorded by 1966.
Example
- 1. How could they be free from this intolerable bondage ?
- 2. Unlike cephu , galt had the means to end his societal bondage .
- 3. For without that light , the beast of bondage can continue to live in the shadows .
- 4. God is a lover and a liberator , and surrendering to him brings freedom , not bondage .
- 5. God is a lover and a liberator , and surrendering brings freedom , not bondage .