What does bondage mean?
Definitions for bondage
ˈbɒn dɪdʒbondage
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word bondage.
Princeton's WordNet
bondagenoun
the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power
"he was in bondage to fear:; "he sought release from his bondage to Satan"; "a self freed from the bondage of time"
bondage, slavery, thrall, thralldom, thraldomnoun
the state of being under the control of another person
bondagenoun
sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners
Wiktionary
bondagenoun
The state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery.
In Judeo-Christian tradition, the Israelites fled bondage at the hands of the Egyptians, only to wander in the wilderness for the next four decades.
bondagenoun
The state of lacking freedom; constraint.
He lived in financial bondage to his cocaine habit; no matter how much he earned, it all seemed to disappear up his nose.
bondagenoun
The practice of tying people up for sexual pleasure.
Their marriage broke up when she discovered he had been engaging in bondage games with a local dominatrix while he was supposedly working out at the gym.
Etymology: From bondage, from (Anglo-Latin) bondagium, from bond, from bonda, of origin, from bóndi, bóandi, from bóa, búa, from būanan, from bhōw-. Cognate with and bóndi, bo, bauen, boer, bower. See also neighbour, booth, build.
Webster Dictionary
Bondageadjective
the state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity
Bondageadjective
obligation; tie of duty
Bondageadjective
villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner
Freebase
Bondage
Bondage is the tying, binding, or restraining of a person for the sexual, aesthetic, and/or psychological pleasure of the parties involved. Rope, cuffs, bondage tape, self-adhesive bandages, or other restraints may be used for this purpose. Bondage itself does not contain sadomasochism. Bondage may be used as an end into itself, as in the case of rope bondage and breast bondage. It may also be used as a part of sex or in conjunction with other BDSM activities. The letter "B" in the acronym "BDSM" comes from the word "bondage". Sexuality and erotica are an important aspect in bondage, but are often not the end in itself. Aesthetics also plays an important role in bondage. The most common reason for the active partner to tie up his/her partner is pleasure from the restrained partner's submission and the feeling of the temporary transfer of control and power. For sadomasochistic people, bondage is often used as a means to an end, where the restrained partner is more accessible to other sadomasochistic behaviour. However, bondage can also be used for its own sake. The active partner can derive visual pleasure from seeing his/her partner tied up, and the restrained partner can derive tactile pleasure from the feeling of helplessness and immobility.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Bondage
bond′āj, n. state of being bound: captivity: slavery.—n. Bond′ager, a female outworker in the Border and North country, whom the hind or married cottar was bound to provide for the farm-work. [O. Fr.; Low L. bondagium, a kind of tenure. Acc. to Skeat, this is from A.S. bonda, a boor, a householder, from Ice. bóndi = búandi, a tiller, a husbandman, búa, to till, cog. with A.S. búan.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of bondage in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of bondage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of bondage in a Sentence
Marriage is a cage in which a husband is kept hostage to work always under the tutelage of his wife , so only a mentally deranged man can often be seen happy to live under his bondage to a woman.
True leadership is service and sometimes bondage. Thus, Jesus ends up washing the feet of his pupils. The master acting as a slave.
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.
It very much so is a psychological form of bondage, it ties you to those memories and it ties you to those feelings that you felt when you got that and to be able to be free of enslavement and then to make an active choice of, 'This is what I want on my body, not this man's name or this gang's symbol, I want my daughter's name, I want a beautiful flower, I want a religious scripture, I want a butterfly to show that I have wings, and I can fly.'.
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- عبوديةArabic
- робство, ограничениеBulgarian
- bondážCzech
- trældomDanish
- Bondage, Sklaverei, PflichtGerman
- sklavecoEsperanto
- esclavitudSpanish
- sitominen, sitomisleikit, orjuusFinnish
- esclavage, servitude, bondageFrench
- cuibhriúIrish
- ग़ुलामी, बन्दगीHindi
- rabságHungarian
- perbudakanIndonesian
- servitùItalian
- ボンデージJapanese
- მონობა, ბონდაჟიGeorgian
- 속박Korean
- captivitasLatin
- slavernijDutch
- bondageNorwegian
- escravidãoPortuguese
- robieRomanian
- рабство, неволя, зависимость, бондажRussian
- slaveriSwedish
- బానిసత్వంTelugu
- görev, esaret, kölelik, esirlikTurkish
- غلامیUrdu
- באָנדאַגעYiddish
- 束縛Chinese
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