Servitude
noun
The condition of being a slave or of having to obey another person.
After five years in servitude, he finally managed to gain his freedom.
noun
A legal term for a right or obligation that goes with ownership of land.
The land is subject to a servitude of passage to allow access to property behind it.
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noun
The condition of being a slave or of having to obey another person.
After five years in servitude, he finally managed to gain his freedom.
noun
A legal term for a right or obligation that goes with ownership of land.
The land is subject to a servitude of passage to allow access to property behind it.
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Servitude implies a lack of freedom, often with negative feelings like oppression or subjugation.
The novel depicted the harsh realities of servitude under a ruthless master.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Usage
The term often relates to historical periods like colonialism or ancient empires where forced labor was common.
History lessons about servitude show how societies have changed over time.
Pro Tip 3/3Mistaken Identity
Do not confuse 'servitude' with 'service'; 'servitude' usually involves coercion, while 'service' is often voluntary.
What she thought was a simple job turned out to be servitude.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Servitude implies a lack of freedom, often with negative feelings like oppression or subjugation.
The novel depicted the harsh realities of servitude under a ruthless master.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Usage
The term often relates to historical periods like colonialism or ancient empires where forced labor was common.
History lessons about servitude show how societies have changed over time.
Pro Tip 3/3Mistaken Identity
Do not confuse 'servitude' with 'service'; 'servitude' usually involves coercion, while 'service' is often voluntary.
What she thought was a simple job turned out to be servitude.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Servitude implies a lack of freedom, often with negative feelings like oppression or subjugation.
The novel depicted the harsh realities of servitude under a ruthless master.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Usage
The term often relates to historical periods like colonialism or ancient empires where forced labor was common.
History lessons about servitude show how societies have changed over time.
Pro Tip 3/3Mistaken Identity
Do not confuse 'servitude' with 'service'; 'servitude' usually involves coercion, while 'service' is often voluntary.
What she thought was a simple job turned out to be servitude.
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The electrifying...
the emancipation act was gradual. Those who were currently enslaved were forced to serve a period of indentured servitude until their mid-20s. Throughout this period, enslavers repeatedly sold Baumfree, tearing her from her loved ones. Often, she was explicitly prevented from pursuing new relationships.
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TX Finalist PIPE National...
bears the nickname cow town the stockyards are now a major shopping dining and entertainment venues if I was introduced to the earth I would attempt to stop human trafficking according to the United Nations every year 2.5 million people are trafficked and forced into involuntary servitude although the
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How India Influenced...
A popular origin suggests that it was used as a way to serve people of color who were forbidden to eat in cafes and restaurants. Nonwhite customers had to order their food to go at the door and the dense bread served as a robust and portable container. From indentured servitude to apartheid,
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How technology changes...
It was a way of appeasing the gods. Otherwise the rain wouldn't come, the sun wouldn't shine. Public executions. They were common, normal, legal. You used to take your kids to watch beheadings in the streets of Paris. One of the greatest wrongs, slavery, indentured servitude,
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The urgent need for...
enslaving people who are black and we never address that that legacy we have in the 13th amendment language that prohibits involuntary servitude in forced labor we never talked about the narrative of racial differences because of that I don't believe that slavery
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Wade Davis: Cultures at...
a people who lived free in the forest until a generation ago, and now have all been reduced to servitude and prostitution on the banks of the rivers, where you can see the river itself is soiled with the silt that seems to be carrying half of Borneo away
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Mysteries of vernacular:...
Robot, a machine capable of carrying out a programmable series of actions. The origin of the word robot dates back more than a thousand years to the era of serfdom in central Europe when servitude was the currency for rent.
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Lisa Kristine: Photos...
it's important to note that slavery, including sex trafficking, occurs in our own backyard as well. Tens of hundreds of people are enslaved in agriculture, in restaurants, in domestic servitude, and the list can go on.
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Why there's no such...
genocides across entire continents, mass exploitation of colonized peoples, industrial servitude, two disastrous world wars, the Holocaust, nuclear warfare, species extinctions, environmental degradation,
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Isabel Allende: How to...
and she has changed the culture in the country. Now it is illegal for fathers to sell their daughters into servitude. She has also founded orphanages and nutritional clinics. She is always happy
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The electrifying...
the emancipation act was gradual. Those who were currently enslaved were forced to serve a period of indentured servitude until their mid-20s. Throughout this period, enslavers repeatedly sold Baumfree, tearing her from her loved ones. Often, she was explicitly prevented from pursuing new relationships.
Video examples
TX Finalist PIPE National...
bears the nickname cow town the stockyards are now a major shopping dining and entertainment venues if I was introduced to the earth I would attempt to stop human trafficking according to the United Nations every year 2.5 million people are trafficked and forced into involuntary servitude although the
Video examples
How India Influenced...
A popular origin suggests that it was used as a way to serve people of color who were forbidden to eat in cafes and restaurants. Nonwhite customers had to order their food to go at the door and the dense bread served as a robust and portable container. From indentured servitude to apartheid,
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How technology changes...
It was a way of appeasing the gods. Otherwise the rain wouldn't come, the sun wouldn't shine. Public executions. They were common, normal, legal. You used to take your kids to watch beheadings in the streets of Paris. One of the greatest wrongs, slavery, indentured servitude,
Video examples
The urgent need for...
enslaving people who are black and we never address that that legacy we have in the 13th amendment language that prohibits involuntary servitude in forced labor we never talked about the narrative of racial differences because of that I don't believe that slavery
Video examples
Wade Davis: Cultures at...
a people who lived free in the forest until a generation ago, and now have all been reduced to servitude and prostitution on the banks of the rivers, where you can see the river itself is soiled with the silt that seems to be carrying half of Borneo away
Video examples
Mysteries of vernacular:...
Robot, a machine capable of carrying out a programmable series of actions. The origin of the word robot dates back more than a thousand years to the era of serfdom in central Europe when servitude was the currency for rent.
Video examples
Lisa Kristine: Photos...
it's important to note that slavery, including sex trafficking, occurs in our own backyard as well. Tens of hundreds of people are enslaved in agriculture, in restaurants, in domestic servitude, and the list can go on.
Video examples
Why there's no such...
genocides across entire continents, mass exploitation of colonized peoples, industrial servitude, two disastrous world wars, the Holocaust, nuclear warfare, species extinctions, environmental degradation,
Video examples
Isabel Allende: How to...
and she has changed the culture in the country. Now it is illegal for fathers to sell their daughters into servitude. She has also founded orphanages and nutritional clinics. She is always happy
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Jacque Fresco
American Inventor
Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.
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Alice Walker
American Author
I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.
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Gerrit Smith
American Politician
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
English Poet
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
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Joshua Cohen
American Writer
The M.F.A. is a degree in servitude. It is a way to keep writing safe - to keep reading safe from writing.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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Kwame Nkrumah
Ghanaian Statesman
We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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Albert Camus
French Philosopher
The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
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Aldous Huxley
English Novelist
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American Poet
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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Jacque Fresco
American Inventor
Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.
Quote examples
Alice Walker
American Author
I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.
Quote examples
Gerrit Smith
American Politician
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.
Quote examples
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English Poet
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
Quote examples
Joshua Cohen
American Writer
The M.F.A. is a degree in servitude. It is a way to keep writing safe - to keep reading safe from writing.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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Kwame Nkrumah
Ghanaian Statesman
We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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Albert Camus
French Philosopher
The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
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Aldous Huxley
English Novelist
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American Poet
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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