slavery
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
substrateder.?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewH-der.?
Proto-Slavic *slov-
Proto-Slavic *-ǫta
Proto-Slavic *Slov-?
Proto-Balto-Slavic *-ēnas
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Slavic *-inъ
Proto-Slavic *-ěninъ
Proto-Slavic *slověninъbor.
Byzantine Greek Σκλαβηνός (Sklabēnós)der.
Byzantine Greek Σκλᾰ́βος (Sklắbos)bor.
Late Latin Sclavus
Medieval Latin sclavusbor.
Old French esclavebor.
Middle English sclave
English slave
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French -eriebor.
Middle English -erie
English -ery
English slavery
From slave + -ery.
Inflected forms:
form: slaveries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more slavery
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most slavery
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: abolition of slavery
modern slavery
slavery system
Slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century.
The film portrays the brutality of slavery.
THAT the Constitution does not confer upon Congress power to interfere with slavery in the States, has been admitted by all parties and confirmed by all judicial decisions ever since the origin of the Federal Government. This doctrine was emphatically recognized by the House of Representatives in the days of Washington, during the first session of the first Congress,* and has never since been seriously called in question. Hence, it became necessary for the abolitionists, in order to furnish a pretext for their assaults on Southern slavery, to appeal to a law higher than the Constitution.
Slavery, according to them, was a grievous sin against God, and therefore no human Constitution could rightfully shield it from destruction. It was sinful to live in a political confederacy which tolerated slavery in any of the States composing it;[...]
Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.
gloss: Forced labor in general, regardless of legality.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A condition of servitude endured by a slave.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: If you wil willingly remaine with me,
You ſhall haue honors, as your merits be:
Or els you ſhal be forc’d with ſlauerie.
Our victories on Voeld are only the beginning of what we can achieve, but we can't defeat the enemy without your help. If you're tired of living in fear, if you believe we were meant for something greater than slavery, if you're willing to stand up and fight: you'll find a new family in the Resistance.
gloss: A condition in which one is captivated or subjugated, as by greed or drugs.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: Man seeks for gold in mines that he may weave / A lasting chain for his own slavery.
gloss: Covered in slaver; slobbery.
pos: adj
examples: The giant snow bear, the wolf with slavery jaws or the claws of the silent great cats were all a part. Creatures of man's oldest nightmares were the other side of that face.
Related words: debt bondage
bonded labour
Derived words: antislavery
bondslavery
chattel slavery
debt slavery
geoslavery
neo-slavery
postslavery
preslavery
proslavery
proslaveryism
pseudoslavery
sell into slavery
sexual slavery
technoslavery
wagery
wage slavery
white slavery
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