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- noun Plural form of
slavery .
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Examples
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If you are His servants you are free from all besides; if you give yourselves up to Jesus Christ, in the measure in which you give yourselves up to Him, you will be set at liberty from the worst of all slaveries, that is the slavery of your own will and your own weakness, and your own tastes and fancies.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Alexander Maclaren 1868
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That this mosaic of slaveries is called ‘freedom’ is a political dishonesty as bad as anything perpetrated by Communists or the ‘politically correct’ Left.
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The frequent slaveries to which this people were subject seem badly calculated to establish literature in a nation, and to render books very common; and the more rare these books were in the commencement, the more the authors ventured to fill them with miracles.
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Unfortunately, ruling elites have purposely given away the levers of the free and democratic and left us without protection from the worst of freedoms, slaveries, and environmental assaults.
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As we remember the abolition of the slave trade two hundred years ago, we look around to see what new slaveries - of disease or debt or endemic warfare and terrorism - keep men and women in prison.
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As we remember the abolition of the slave trade two hundred years ago, we look around to see what new slaveries - of disease or debt or endemic warfare and terrorism - keep men and women in prison.
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Under a very narrow set — imminent invasion by a huge force, say, where the alternative were the utter domination of the society — I might also be persuaded on “lesser-of-two-slaveries” grounds.
More Draftiness 2004
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What do the tales of Abdelrahman Salahadin's several different slaveries and "drownings" mean or evoke?
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And lawless slaveries, — down the aereal regions 140
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Is it not the worst of all slaveries to see all these wretches and their flatterers, whom they gorge with gold, at the head of affairs?
The Wasps 2000
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