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bond servant

or bond-servant

noun

First recorded in 1525–35

The consciousness of being no longer a bond-servant sweetens all my toils.

The free man is more alert to obligation, more conscientious in performance, than the bond servant.

She asked not to be acknowledged as his parent, but only to live with him, even as a bond servant, if he willed it.

The man who marries a woman for her money is a white slave, a bond servant, a travesty on manhood.

He was to all intents and purposes bond servant to an enemy of his country.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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