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thrall⋅dom

  [thrawl-duhm]
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–noun
the state of being a thrall; bondage; slavery; servitude.
Also, thraldom.

Origin:
1125–75; ME thraldom. See thrall, -dom
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thrall   (thrôl)   
n.  
    1. One, such as a slave or serf, who is held in bondage.
    2. One who is intellectually or morally enslaved.
  2. Servitude; bondage: "a people in thrall to the miracles of commerce" (Lewis H. Lapham).
tr.v.   thralled, thrall·ing, thralls Archaic
To enslave.

[Middle English, from Old English thrǣl, from Old Norse thrǣll.]
thrall'dom, thral'dom n.
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Thralldom

Thrall"dom\, n. Thraldom.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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