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English
Noun
thraldom (countable and uncountable, plural thraldoms)
- Alternative spelling of thralldom
1864, “A Fast-Day at Foxden”, in Atlantic Monthly Journal, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2006:The wretched thraldom was over,—and what had it left?
Middle English
Alternative forms
- tharldome, tharldon, tharledom, thraldam, thraldome, thralldam, thralledom, thyrldome, þraldam, þraldame, þraldom, þraldome, þraldum, þralldom, þreldom
- (early) ðraldom
Etymology
From thral + -dom, possibly as a calque of Old Norse þrældómr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈθralˌdoːm/
- (reduced) IPA(key): /ˈθraldam/, /ˈθraldum/
Noun
thraldom (uncountable)
- Slavery, domination; the subjection of a person or group into bondage.
c. 1375, “Book I”, in Iohne Barbour, De geſtis bellis et uirtutibus domini Roberti de Brwyß (The Brus, Advocates MS. 19.2.2), Ouchtirmunſye: Iohannes Ramſay, published 1489, folio 2, recto, lines 233-236; republished at Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c. 2010:Na he [þat] haß ay levyt fꝛe / May nocht knaw weill þe pꝛopyꝛte / Þe angyr na þe wꝛetchyt dome / [Þat] is couplyt to foule thyrldome- No, one who's always lived free / won't really understand the feeling, / the suffering, or the painful fate / that's linked to foul slavery.
- Obedience, submissiveness; the following of another's orders.
- (religion) Spiritual subjection or control.
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