thraldom

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You'll be irritated not enraged, and will find its thraldom easy to resist.

From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2011

Death, according to Socrates,282 either extinguishes life or emancipates it from the thraldom of the body.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

He was held in a thraldom of fear as she slowly advanced toward the bed.

From The Homesteader A Novel by Micheaux, Oscar

Did she hold him in such abject thraldom that he really could not get on without her?

From The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis

She did not move away, but stood as if in a thraldom, with a feeling stealing over her that somewhere she had seen and known him once....

From The Homesteader A Novel by Micheaux, Oscar