Slavery Definition

slāvə-rē, slāvrē
slaveries
noun
slaveries
The condition in which one person is owned as property by another and is under the owner's control, especially in involuntary servitude.
American Heritage
The owning or keeping of slaves as a practice or institution; slaveholding.
Webster's New World
A condition of submission to or domination by some influence, habit, etc.
Webster's New World
Hard work or toil like that done by slaves; drudgery.
Webster's New World
The condition of being a slave; bondage; servitude.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Slavery

Noun

Singular:
slavery
Plural:
slaveries

Origin of Slavery

  • From slave +"Ž -ery.

    From Wiktionary

Slavery Sentence Examples

  • Then war can become obsolete, as foreign to us as slavery and public hangings.

  • Although older, his own name was present under Damian's, as if it had been erased during the long years of his slavery and newly added.

  • Bassett, Constitutional Beginnings of North Carolina (Baltimore, 1894); The Regulators of North Carolina (Washington, 1894); and Slavery in the State of North Carolina (Baltimore, 1899), are all trustworthy.

  • Owing to the prohibition of slavery the vast majority of the early immigrants to Ohio came from the North, but, until the Mexican War forced the slavery question into the foreground, the Democrats usually controlled the state, because the principles of that party were more in harmony with frontier ideas of equality.

  • Slaves were often adopted and if they proved unfilial were reduced to slavery again.

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Words Starting With

SSLSLA

Words Ending With

YRYERY

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