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

We have come here to sail by the free wind of conscience, but look you, it must be the conscience of the few, greater thraldom than it was in the Old World!

From A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Taggart, Marion Ames

However hopeless the condition of the masses may seem, they are already demanding more light and only await an opportunity to proclaim their emancipation from mental thraldom.

From Nature and Culture by Rice, Harvey

Jules showed no signs of returning to the thraldom of Lottie King.

From Mademoiselle Blanche A Novel by Barry, John David

But they did bear it, and with magnanimity, until time and circumstance worked the cure, and delivered them from that thraldom of the mind more galling than any servitude of the body.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous