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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Icel.

[GREEK]rældōmr

. See

, and

The condition of a thrall; slavery; bondage; state of servitude.

[Written also

thralldom

Women are born to

thraldom

and penance
And to be under man’s governance.

Chaucer.

He shall rule, and she in

thraldom

live.

Dryden.

thraldom ‎(countable and uncountable, plural thraldoms)

Alternative spelling of thralldom
- 1864, “A Fast-Day at Foxden”, in Atlantic Monthly Journal, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2006:
  The wretched thraldom was over,—and what had it left?