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serfdom
noun as in slavery
Example Sentences
The Romanov tsars imposed rigid serfdom just as that woeful institution was fading almost everywhere else.
Tragically, the Medievalist Subreddit also never seems to address that tricky issue of serfdom—pro or con?
Why isn't his first step the abolition of the State Department's outrageous program of state-sponsored serfdom?
Another is that the players are exploited in a system that amounts to a kind of serfdom.
Obamacare is pushing America down the road to serfdom, but neither its opponents nor advocates seem to have noticed.
So such as remain are allowed to live, though it must be owned that their condition is but very little removed from serfdom.
We read of Radischeff—the first to point out the horrors of serfdom—who was imprisoned, deported, and died by suicide.
And as you look, remember that this fair lass was but a peasant's child, born to serfdom at the best.
Ans.: Chattel slavery, serfdom, or feudal slavery and wage slavery.
And he declared that he would have abolished serfdom if it had cost him his head—if only civilization had been more advanced.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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