Synonyms for enslavement
en·slave·ment

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1. enslavement, captivitynoun

   the state of being a slave

   "So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity"--Shakespeare

   Synonyms:
   incarceration, captivity, immurement, imprisonment

2. enslavementnoun

   the act of making slaves of your captives

   Synonyms:
   captivity

Matched Categories

1. • Capture
   • Subjugation

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1. enslavementnoun

   Synonyms:
   enthrallment, subjugation, subjection, bondage, slavery

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1. List of paraphrases for "enslavement":

   slavery, servitude, subjugation, subservience, bondage, servile

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How to use enslavement in a sentence?

1. Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960):

   A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.

2. Robert E. Lee:

   That whole mentality of the Lost Cause started to seep into my life, it then became a point of retrospection and trying to figure out what is the point of all this ? Why are we celebrating this man who enslaved people and fought for the continued enslavement of Black people on this continent ?

3. The Pope:

   We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups.

4. Jennifer Kempton:

   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.'.

5. Maggie Hassan:

   We must teach both our triumphs and our mistakes, whether it’s enslavement, Japanese internment or the treatment of those with disabilities.