thraldom

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a state of bondage, servitude, or complete subjection to another power

   Philosophical reflection freed her from the thraldom of inherited fears.

From Middle English thraldom, formed from thral ("enslaved person, serf") + -dom ("state or condition"). Thrall was borrowed into Old English from Old Norse thræll. Thralldom is an established variant spelling.

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