Noun: thraldom
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Sample Sentences
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Na he [þat] haß ay levyt fꝛe / May nocht knaw weill þe pꝛopyꝛte / Þe angyr na þe wꝛetchyt dome / [Þat] is couplyt to foule thyrldome (No, one who's always lived free / won't really understand the feeling, / the suffering, or the painful fate / that's linked to foul slavery.) [c. 1375, “Book I”, in Iohne Barbour, De geſtis bellis et uirtutibus domini Roberti de Brwyß […] (The Brus, Advocates MS. 19.2.2), Ouchtirmunsye: Iohannes Ramsay, published 1489, folio 2, recto, lines 233-236; republished at Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c. 2010:]
Nouns inflected like thraldom
syment,
cristened,
savete,
savyne,
sandal,
whelere,
scuage,
scluse,
sclise,
sclave,
schyft,
schuit,
schite,
schort,
schold,
schern,
smothe,
smethe,
smerte,
slutte, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From thral + -dom, possibly as a calque of Old Norse þrældómr.
Verbs referencing "thraldom"
English Nouns
thraldom.
Translations