Definitions for servitude
ˈsɜr vɪˌtud, -ˌtyudservi·tude

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. servitudenoun

   state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment

   "penal servitude"

WiktionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. servitudenoun

   The state of being a slave; slavery.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Servitudenoun

   Etymology: servitude, French; servitus, Lati.

   1. Slavery; state of a slave; dependance.

   Aristotle speaketh of men, whom nature hath framed for the state of servitude, saying, they have reason so far forth as to conceive when others direct them. Richard Hooker.

   You would have sold your king to slaughter,
   His princes and his peers to servitude,
   His subjects to oppression and contempt. William Shakespeare, Hen. V.

   Tho’ it is necessary, that some persons in the world should be in love with a splendid servitude, yet certainly they must be much beholding to their own fancy, that they can be pleased at it; for he that rises up early, and goes to bed late, only to receive addresses, is really as much abridged in his freedom, as he that waits to present one. Robert South, Sermons.

   Unjustly thou deprav’st it with the name
   Of servitude, to serve whom God ordains,
   Or nature: God and nature bid the same,
   When he who rules is worthiest. John Milton.

   2. Servants collectively.

   After him a cum’brous train
   Of herds, and flocks, and numerous servitude. John Milton.

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1. servitude

   Servitude refers to a state or condition of being under the control or domination of another person, typically involving labor or service performed against one's will or for an extended period of time. It involves the lack of personal freedom, autonomy, and the ability to make choices independently. Servitude can be enforced through various means, including physical force, legal systems, debt, or social norms, and it often leads to the exploitation and oppression of individuals or groups.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Servitudenoun

   the state of voluntary or compulsory subjection to a master; the condition of being bound to service; the condition of a slave; slavery; bondage; hence, a state of slavish dependence

2. Servitudenoun

   servants, collectively

3. Servitudenoun

   a right whereby one thing is subject to another thing or person for use or convenience, contrary to the common right

4. Etymology: [L. servitudo: cf. F. servitude.]

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1. Servitude

   In BDSM, servitude refers to performing personal tasks for their dominant partner, as part of their submissive role in a BDSM relationship. In domestic servitude roles, the submissive can receive pleasure and satisfaction from performing personal services for their dominant, such as serving as a butler, waitress, chauffeur, maid or houseboy. In workplace BDSM, the submissive can somehow secretly contrive that a work colleague, of the same or opposite gender to the submissive, unwittingly finds themselves with imagined or real work-related disciplinary power and/or status over the submissive. The created dominant may never realise they are bringing secret pleasure and satisfaction to the submissive, in the giving of orders or else in rebuking the submissive for supposed performance failings at the workplace, such as "laziness". The satisfaction of servitude are often combined with the pleasures of fetishes, the pleasures of humiliation, or both. A submissive may rub his or her dominant's feet because the sub enjoys providing the service, has a foot fetish, enjoys being "lower" than the dominant, or any combination. But some bottoms who enjoy servitude prefer to keep their enjoyment and pleasure secret from all others including person they have created as their "dominant". There are those in the BDSM community who frown upon this practice, however, as surreptitiously putting someone in a dominant position violates the principle of consent.

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Anagrams for servitude »

1. detrusive

2. divesture

How to pronounce servitude?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say servitude in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of servitude in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of servitude in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of servitude in a Sentence

1. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

   Any job that pays $2.13 per hour is not a job, it is indentured servitude.

2. Samuel Adams:

   If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen.

3. Georges Bataille:

   The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

4. Andrea Dworkin:

   The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.

5. John Philpot Curran:

   It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=servitude
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Servitude
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=servitude
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/servitude
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=servitude
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=servitude