slaveryn.

Brit.

/ˈsleɪv(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈsleɪv(ə)ri/

Forms: 1500s sclauerie, 1500s sclauerye, 1500s slaverye, 1500s–1600s sclauery, 1500s–1600s slauerie, 1500s–1600s slauery, 1500s–1600s slauerye, 1500s–1700s slaverie, 1500s– slavery, 1600s sclavery; also Scottish pre-1700 sclauerie, pre-1700 sclaverie, pre-1700 sclavery, pre-1700 sklaverie, pre-1700 slaifrie, pre-1700 slaivrie, pre-1700 slauerie, pre-1700 slaverie, pre-1700 slavrie, pre-1700 slawrie.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: slave n., -ery suffix.

Etymology: < slave n. + -ery suffix.Compare Middle Dutch slaverie, slavernie (Dutch †slaverij, slavernij), German Sklaverei (17th cent.), Swedish slaveri, †sclaveri (17th cent.), Danish slaveri, †sklaveri (18th cent.).

(a) The state or condition of having the (legal) status of being the property of another person, of having no personal freedom or rights, and of being used as forced labour or an unpaid servant; the fact of being enslaved; involuntary servitude. Now chiefly historical (although cf. sense 1a(b)).

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun]

theowdomc893

thralshipc1200

thraldomc1275

thrallhead1297

servagec1300

thrall14..

bondage1330

dangera1375

servicea1382

servitutea1393

thaneheada1400

thrillagec1400

serviturea1422

servitudec1425

thrildomc1480

thirldom1489

thirlage1513

servilityc1530

slavedom1562

serviceage1594

bondmanship1611

bond-service1611

slaverya1616

slavishnessa1620

bond slavery1835

chattelship1857

chattelhood1871

thirl-band1871

thirl-service-

1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. F.v The pascall lambe (slayne and offered) was a meane whereby the Israelites were deliuered from theyr slauery of Pharao.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 137 Being taken..And sold to slauery .

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 9 Seeing the gain by their slavery is more aim'd at than the conversion of their souls to Christ.

1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Apr. (1965) I. 402 Their Slavery is, in my Opinion, no worse than Servitude all over the world.

1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 211 A barbarian killing his wife and himself to escape slavery.

1863 J. S. Mill Let. 21 Feb. in Sat. Rev. 302 Foremost among all things which injure and dishonour a country stands the personal slavery of human beings.

1921 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 51 373 Among the Sungu and the Olemba many Batetela tribesmen are in a state of slavery.

2018 R. Eddo-Lodge Why I'm no longer talking to White People about Race (rev. ed.) i. 3 Thousands of people being born into slavery and dying enslaved. Entire lives sustaining constant brutality and violence, living in never-ending fear.

(b) Chiefly with modifying word. Employment or working conditions seen as exploitative, coercive, or as involving effective or virtual enslavement. Now frequently with reference to (usually illegal) practices such as people trafficking, enforced labour and sexual exploitation, debt bondage, and other abuses of human beings for profit (cf. modern slavery n. at modern adj. and n. Compounds 2).Cf. debt-slavery n. at debt n. Compounds 2, wage-slavery n. at wage n. Compounds 1a, white slavery n.

1750 T. Nugent tr. C.-L. de S. de Montesquieu Spirit of Laws I. ix. 365 The slavery of women is perfectly conformable to the genius of despotic government, which delights in treating all with severity. Thus at all times have we seen in Asia domestic slavery and despotic government walk hand in hand with an equal pace.

1889 Contemp. Rev. Dec. 832 As regards the increased cost of living.., the drawback of the slavery of the workers, which some working men appear to feel so keenly, remains.

1910 E. Goldman in P. Glassgold Anarchy! (2001) 120 A complete transvaluation of all accepted values—especially the moral ones—coupled with the abolition of industrial slavery.

1991 Village Voice (N.Y.) 5 Feb. 12/1 The more common way for smuggled immigrants to pay off their debts is..demeaning. It's a payment described as ‘debt bondage’,..and it amounts to a modern form of slavery.

2000 Internat. Planned Parenthood Federation Ann. Rep. 5/1 An increasing number of young men and women from the newly independent states are being trafficked and sold into sexual slavery in Western Europe.

b. The practice or institution of keeping people as slaves. Also: the fact of people being held as slaves in this way; the presence of enslaved people as a class in a community.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > system or institution

slavery1728

servilism1857

chattelism1865

neoslavery1958

1643 R. Gentilis tr. G. Diodati Pious Annot. Holy Bible (Gen. xii. 5) 13/2 Slavery was then in use, and approved by God himselfe, though the beginning of it be not set downe and declared unto us.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Slave As Slavery was not abolished by the Gospel, the Custom of having Slaves lasted a long Time.

1764 R. Burn Hist. Poor Laws 122 The notion of slavery was not unknown to our laws, so early as the reign of king Edward the sixth.

1832 H. Martineau Demerara ii. 22 Why, then, has there been slavery in all ages of the world?

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xix. 10 On this abstract question of slavery there can, as I think, be but one opinion.

1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. vi. 143 Slavery, under which..certain men held complete possession of others.

1923 W. H. Elson & M. H. Burris Child Libr. Readers Bk. 5 (1927) 67 What tells you there was slavery in Rome at the time of this story?

1988 J. Mellon in Bullwhip Days Introd. p. xv It was racism that gave American slavery its distinctive character.

2021 Jrnl. World Christianity 11 282 Having imported the largest number of enslaved Africans in the Americas, Brazil was the last Western country to abolish slavery in 1888.

c. Entomology. The practice among certain ants, esp. of the genera Formica and Polyergus, of using ants of a different colony or species as workers. Also: the condition or fact of being such a worker. Cf. dulosis n.

1849 L. M. Budgen Episodes Insect Life 115 Slavery, as inflicted on others, is a thing unknown among the Fuscans; and their working females..perform all the useful offices, which among the Rufians are made to devolve upon the slaves.

1869 Home Visitor 3 80 It was discovered that slavery among these ants was both more humane (if I may so use the word), and far more justifiable than slavery among mankind.

1983 Behaviour 85 59 Slavery occurs in at least three tribes, belonging to two subfamilies of ants and, even within these groups, has probably evolved repeatedly.

2016 Behavioral Ecol. & Sociobiol. 70 38/2 The apparent differences in raiding behavior in the three closely related slavemaker species point to divergent co-evolutionary outcomes of slavery in ants.

a. A state of subjection or subordination to another person, political power, etc., regarded as comparable to that of an enslaved person. Also: an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > condition resembling

thraldomc1175

servitude1474

slavery1590

1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie sig. D.ii It wyl bryng the cleargy shortely into a very slauerye.

1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. E5^v No hope of end: To our infamous monstrous slaueries.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. iv. i. ii. 727 Tis a wonder..what slauery King Henry the second endured for the death of Th. a Becket.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1683 (1955) IV. 318 The extreame slavery & subjection that Courtiers live in, who have not time to eate & drinke at their pleasure.

1724 J. Swift Let. to People of Ireland 15 All Government without the Consent of the Governed is the very Definition of Slavery.

1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. v. 208 The feeling which pervaded the native states, their anxiety to be rescued..from the miserable slavery to which they had been reduced.

2021 MailOnline (Nexis) 10 Dec. The man then starts shouting again saying: ‘You guys wearing these masks are leading us into slavery, into vaccine passport slavery.’

b. figurative. The condition or fact of being under the domination of a specified influence, desire, etc.; a state of total dependence on or subjection to something.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > necessity > [noun] > subjugation of the will to something else

bondagea1450

captivitya1538

slavery1577

subjugation1609

vassalage1612

subordination1663

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. ii. sig. H^v/2 The redemption of all the worlde..from the slauerie of sin.

1615 E. Weston Triall Christian Truht: 2nd Pt. xix. 127 And whereas the Apostle sayeth, that charitie expelleth feare, it is to be vnderstood, in regarde of the seruilitie and slauerie of feare.

1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 3 Instilling their barren hearts with a conscientious slavery.

1725 I. Watts Logick ii. iii. 352 This is..as shameful a Slavery of the Soul.

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho II. vi. 217 If you will not release yourself from the slavery of these fears.

a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. (1878) ii. 68 The slavery to chance is a worse evil than slavery to authority.

1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life x. x. 393 A kind of slavery—a minute obedience to the clock.

1916 Sci. Temperance Jrnl. Dec. 103/1 A life that gradually worked itself into slavery to drink.., but, fortunately, extricated itself more happily than some.

2004 Times 16 Mar. 21/5 That which Ms Gold heralds as a symbol of liberalisation is no more than one omen of a new slavery to consumerism.

3. Work regarded as suitable for or comparable with that of an enslaved person; heavy or menial labour; hard work, drudgery. Also: an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > servile or menial work

thrall-workc1175

drudgery1548

slavery1551

journey-work1614

drudgery work1632

slave work1808

hackwork1824

dog's work1847

dog work1850

grind1851

daily grind1853

slave work1916

donkey-work1920

clock-punching1929

legwork1942

shitwork1958

kyeyo1996

the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > labour or toil > wearisome or unrewarding

drudgery1548

slavery1551

droiling1607

sluttery1615

under-drudgery1625

drudging1634

droila1644

fag1780

scrubbery1783

stodge1846

buggerlugging1878

1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Iviii^v In this hal all vyle seruice all slauerie..is done by bondemen.

1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1891) 43 Digginge of Coles, and other slaueryes and extreame toyles.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 34 Asses which they use..to carry Packs,..and any other Slavery.

1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 65 To give them continual Waterings..is a very great Slavery and Expence.

1897 Daily News 13 Sept. 6/7 Such people..ought never to keep servants, but do their own slavery.

1919 J. E. Wilson Servers xix. 377 [She] embraced with delight the opportunity to leave forever the slavery of scrubbing floors through long night hours.

2002 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 14 Apr. (Business section) 5 I want to free people from the slavery of cleaning windows.

†4. Ignoble, base, or unbecoming behaviour; esp. abject submissiveness or servility, degradingly obsequious behaviour or attitude. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > [noun]

truandise?c1225

lorelshipc1380

truantry1426

coquineryc1430

loselry1480

loonery?a1513

palliardrya1522

truanting1532

patchingc1535

foul play1546

patchery?1553

slavery1553

palliardy1568

smaikry1573

roguishness1579

rascality1582

roguery1594

scutchery1594

ropery1599

cullionry1611

scoundrelism1611

friponnerie1708

rascalism1837

scoundreldom1837

rascaldom1851

scoundrelship1856

rascalry1868

scallywaggery1897

scallywagism1897

scallywagging1915

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > ignobleness or baseness > [noun] > behaviour

slavery1553

society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > baseness or moral vileness > conduct

slavery1553

smaikry1573

cullionry1611

basery1614

sluttery1648

blackguardism1777

raffery1819

blackguardry1820

doggery1844

Schweinerei1896

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 73 But if an officer..should vse any slauerie, we are much more greeued.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) sig. A vj If there bee anie..which seeketh to..benefit himselfe by flatterie, by briberie, by slauerie.

1630 N. Richards Celestiall Publican sig. G7 Others there are, that smiling Flatter all, Proue for to each, but Friend to none at all And such (beleeu't) make vse of Time, and Place, By seruile slauery, most creeping base.

1766 C. Jemmat Misc. in Prose & Verse 204 O happy he..! Who, far remov'd from slavery as from pride, Fears no man's frown, nor cringing wants to catch The gracious nothing of a great man's nod.

1802 J. Pinkerton Mod. Geogr. I. 350 Riesbeck has depicted in warm colours the metaphysical absurdities of the Austrian professors, and the abject tone of slavery and flattery which pervades even the little solid literature that is known.

Compounds

As a modifier (chiefly in sense 1b) with the sense ‘of, relating to, or supporting slavery’, as slavery era, slavery party, slavery question, etc.

ΚΠ

1788 Times 21 Feb. Slave trade. Captain Berkeley presented a petition from the Inhabitants of Bristol, praying for the abolition of the Slavery Trade.

1819 Illinois Emigrant 22 May The formation of the constitution had produced an entire amalgamation of parties on the slavery question.

1856 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 11 July The South acting in a body in forcing the issue of Slavery extension, by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.

1906 F. N. Thorpe Hist. N. Amer. XV. ii. 115 The slavery issue—exclusion of slavery from the Territories or extension of slavery over them—was the issue when..the Republicans assembled in convention.

1989 Jet 19 June 38/2 Detroit man leads drive for slavery reparations.

2009 I. Thomson Dead Yard x. 129 Yaws, a variant of leprosy, widespread in slavery-era Jamaica, no longer exists.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022).

单词	slavery
释义	slaveryn. Brit. /ˈsleɪv(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈsleɪv(ə)ri/ Forms: 1500s sclauerie, 1500s sclauerye, 1500s slaverye, 1500s–1600s sclauery, 1500s–1600s slauerie, 1500s–1600s slauery, 1500s–1600s slauerye, 1500s–1700s slaverie, 1500s– slavery, 1600s sclavery; also Scottish pre-1700 sclauerie, pre-1700 sclaverie, pre-1700 sclavery, pre-1700 sklaverie, pre-1700 slaifrie, pre-1700 slaivrie, pre-1700 slauerie, pre-1700 slaverie, pre-1700 slavrie, pre-1700 slawrie. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: slave n., -ery suffix. Etymology: < slave n. + -ery suffix.Compare Middle Dutch slaverie, slavernie (Dutch †slaverij, slavernij), German Sklaverei (17th cent.), Swedish slaveri, †sclaveri (17th cent.), Danish slaveri, †sklaveri (18th cent.). 1. a. (a) The state or condition of having the (legal) status of being the property of another person, of having no personal freedom or rights, and of being used as forced labour or an unpaid servant; the fact of being enslaved; involuntary servitude. Now chiefly historical (although cf. sense 1a(b)). ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] theowdomc893 thralshipc1200 thraldomc1275 thrallhead1297 servagec1300 thrall14.. bondage1330 dangera1375 servicea1382 servitutea1393 thaneheada1400 thrillagec1400 serviturea1422 servitudec1425 thrildomc1480 thirldom1489 thirlage1513 servilityc1530 slavedom1562 serviceage1594 bondmanship1611 bond-service1611 slaverya1616 slavishnessa1620 bond slavery1835 chattelship1857 chattelhood1871 thirl-band1871 thirl-service- 1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. F.v The pascall lambe (slayne and offered) was a meane whereby the Israelites were deliuered from theyr slauery of Pharao. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 137 Being taken..And sold to slauery . View more context for this quotation 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 9 Seeing the gain by their slavery is more aim'd at than the conversion of their souls to Christ. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Apr. (1965) I. 402 Their Slavery is, in my Opinion, no worse than Servitude all over the world. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 211 A barbarian killing his wife and himself to escape slavery. 1863 J. S. Mill Let. 21 Feb. in Sat. Rev. 302 Foremost among all things which injure and dishonour a country stands the personal slavery of human beings. 1921 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 51 373 Among the Sungu and the Olemba many Batetela tribesmen are in a state of slavery. 2018 R. Eddo-Lodge Why I'm no longer talking to White People about Race (rev. ed.) i. 3 Thousands of people being born into slavery and dying enslaved. Entire lives sustaining constant brutality and violence, living in never-ending fear. (b) Chiefly with modifying word. Employment or working conditions seen as exploitative, coercive, or as involving effective or virtual enslavement. Now frequently with reference to (usually illegal) practices such as people trafficking, enforced labour and sexual exploitation, debt bondage, and other abuses of human beings for profit (cf. modern slavery n. at modern adj. and n. Compounds 2).Cf. debt-slavery n. at debt n. Compounds 2, wage-slavery n. at wage n. Compounds 1a, white slavery n. Π 1750 T. Nugent tr. C.-L. de S. de Montesquieu Spirit of Laws I. ix. 365 The slavery of women is perfectly conformable to the genius of despotic government, which delights in treating all with severity. Thus at all times have we seen in Asia domestic slavery and despotic government walk hand in hand with an equal pace. 1889 Contemp. Rev. Dec. 832 As regards the increased cost of living.., the drawback of the slavery of the workers, which some working men appear to feel so keenly, remains. 1910 E. Goldman in P. Glassgold Anarchy! (2001) 120 A complete transvaluation of all accepted values—especially the moral ones—coupled with the abolition of industrial slavery. 1991 Village Voice (N.Y.) 5 Feb. 12/1 The more common way for smuggled immigrants to pay off their debts is..demeaning. It's a payment described as ‘debt bondage’,..and it amounts to a modern form of slavery. 2000 Internat. Planned Parenthood Federation Ann. Rep. 5/1 An increasing number of young men and women from the newly independent states are being trafficked and sold into sexual slavery in Western Europe. b. The practice or institution of keeping people as slaves. Also: the fact of people being held as slaves in this way; the presence of enslaved people as a class in a community. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > system or institution slavery1728 servilism1857 chattelism1865 neoslavery1958 1643 R. Gentilis tr. G. Diodati Pious Annot. Holy Bible (Gen. xii. 5) 13/2 Slavery was then in use, and approved by God himselfe, though the beginning of it be not set downe and declared unto us. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Slave As Slavery was not abolished by the Gospel, the Custom of having Slaves lasted a long Time. 1764 R. Burn Hist. Poor Laws 122 The notion of slavery was not unknown to our laws, so early as the reign of king Edward the sixth. 1832 H. Martineau Demerara ii. 22 Why, then, has there been slavery in all ages of the world? 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xix. 10 On this abstract question of slavery there can, as I think, be but one opinion. 1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. vi. 143 Slavery, under which..certain men held complete possession of others. 1923 W. H. Elson & M. H. Burris Child Libr. Readers Bk. 5 (1927) 67 What tells you there was slavery in Rome at the time of this story? 1988 J. Mellon in Bullwhip Days Introd. p. xv It was racism that gave American slavery its distinctive character. 2021 Jrnl. World Christianity 11 282 Having imported the largest number of enslaved Africans in the Americas, Brazil was the last Western country to abolish slavery in 1888. c. Entomology. The practice among certain ants, esp. of the genera Formica and Polyergus, of using ants of a different colony or species as workers. Also: the condition or fact of being such a worker. Cf. dulosis n. Π 1849 L. M. Budgen Episodes Insect Life 115 Slavery, as inflicted on others, is a thing unknown among the Fuscans; and their working females..perform all the useful offices, which among the Rufians are made to devolve upon the slaves. 1869 Home Visitor 3 80 It was discovered that slavery among these ants was both more humane (if I may so use the word), and far more justifiable than slavery among mankind. 1983 Behaviour 85 59 Slavery occurs in at least three tribes, belonging to two subfamilies of ants and, even within these groups, has probably evolved repeatedly. 2016 Behavioral Ecol. & Sociobiol. 70 38/2 The apparent differences in raiding behavior in the three closely related slavemaker species point to divergent co-evolutionary outcomes of slavery in ants. 2. a. A state of subjection or subordination to another person, political power, etc., regarded as comparable to that of an enslaved person. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > condition resembling thraldomc1175 servitude1474 slavery1590 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie sig. D.ii It wyl bryng the cleargy shortely into a very slauerye. 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. E5^v No hope of end: To our infamous monstrous slaueries. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. iv. i. ii. 727 Tis a wonder..what slauery King Henry the second endured for the death of Th. a Becket. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1683 (1955) IV. 318 The extreame slavery & subjection that Courtiers live in, who have not time to eate & drinke at their pleasure. 1724 J. Swift Let. to People of Ireland 15 All Government without the Consent of the Governed is the very Definition of Slavery. 1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. v. 208 The feeling which pervaded the native states, their anxiety to be rescued..from the miserable slavery to which they had been reduced. 2021 MailOnline (Nexis) 10 Dec. The man then starts shouting again saying: ‘You guys wearing these masks are leading us into slavery, into vaccine passport slavery.’ b. figurative. The condition or fact of being under the domination of a specified influence, desire, etc.; a state of total dependence on or subjection to something. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > [noun] > subjugation of the will to something else bondagea1450 captivitya1538 slavery1577 subjugation1609 vassalage1612 subordination1663 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. ii. sig. H^v/2 The redemption of all the worlde..from the slauerie of sin. 1615 E. Weston Triall Christian Truht: 2nd Pt. xix. 127 And whereas the Apostle sayeth, that charitie expelleth feare, it is to be vnderstood, in regarde of the seruilitie and slauerie of feare. 1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 3 Instilling their barren hearts with a conscientious slavery. 1725 I. Watts Logick ii. iii. 352 This is..as shameful a Slavery of the Soul. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho II. vi. 217 If you will not release yourself from the slavery of these fears. a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. (1878) ii. 68 The slavery to chance is a worse evil than slavery to authority. 1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life x. x. 393 A kind of slavery—a minute obedience to the clock. 1916 Sci. Temperance Jrnl. Dec. 103/1 A life that gradually worked itself into slavery to drink.., but, fortunately, extricated itself more happily than some. 2004 Times 16 Mar. 21/5 That which Ms Gold heralds as a symbol of liberalisation is no more than one omen of a new slavery to consumerism. 3. Work regarded as suitable for or comparable with that of an enslaved person; heavy or menial labour; hard work, drudgery. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > servile or menial work thrall-workc1175 drudgery1548 slavery1551 journey-work1614 drudgery work1632 slave work1808 hackwork1824 dog's work1847 dog work1850 grind1851 daily grind1853 slave work1916 donkey-work1920 clock-punching1929 legwork1942 shitwork1958 kyeyo1996 the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > labour or toil > wearisome or unrewarding drudgery1548 slavery1551 droiling1607 sluttery1615 under-drudgery1625 drudging1634 droila1644 fag1780 scrubbery1783 stodge1846 buggerlugging1878 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Iviii^v In this hal all vyle seruice all slauerie..is done by bondemen. 1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1891) 43 Digginge of Coles, and other slaueryes and extreame toyles. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 34 Asses which they use..to carry Packs,..and any other Slavery. 1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 65 To give them continual Waterings..is a very great Slavery and Expence. 1897 Daily News 13 Sept. 6/7 Such people..ought never to keep servants, but do their own slavery. 1919 J. E. Wilson Servers xix. 377 [She] embraced with delight the opportunity to leave forever the slavery of scrubbing floors through long night hours. 2002 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 14 Apr. (Business section) 5 I want to free people from the slavery of cleaning windows. †4. Ignoble, base, or unbecoming behaviour; esp. abject submissiveness or servility, degradingly obsequious behaviour or attitude. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > [noun] truandise?c1225 lorelshipc1380 truantry1426 coquineryc1430 loselry1480 loonery?a1513 palliardrya1522 truanting1532 patchingc1535 foul play1546 patchery?1553 slavery1553 palliardy1568 smaikry1573 roguishness1579 rascality1582 roguery1594 scutchery1594 ropery1599 cullionry1611 scoundrelism1611 friponnerie1708 rascalism1837 scoundreldom1837 rascaldom1851 scoundrelship1856 rascalry1868 scallywaggery1897 scallywagism1897 scallywagging1915 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > ignobleness or baseness > [noun] > behaviour slavery1553 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > baseness or moral vileness > conduct slavery1553 smaikry1573 cullionry1611 basery1614 sluttery1648 blackguardism1777 raffery1819 blackguardry1820 doggery1844 Schweinerei1896 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 73 But if an officer..should vse any slauerie, we are much more greeued. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) sig. A vj If there bee anie..which seeketh to..benefit himselfe by flatterie, by briberie, by slauerie. 1630 N. Richards Celestiall Publican sig. G7 Others there are, that smiling Flatter all, Proue for to each, but Friend to none at all And such (beleeu't) make vse of Time, and Place, By seruile slauery, most creeping base. 1766 C. Jemmat Misc. in Prose & Verse 204 O happy he..! Who, far remov'd from slavery as from pride, Fears no man's frown, nor cringing wants to catch The gracious nothing of a great man's nod. 1802 J. Pinkerton Mod. Geogr. I. 350 Riesbeck has depicted in warm colours the metaphysical absurdities of the Austrian professors, and the abject tone of slavery and flattery which pervades even the little solid literature that is known. Compounds As a modifier (chiefly in sense 1b) with the sense ‘of, relating to, or supporting slavery’, as slavery era, slavery party, slavery question, etc. ΚΠ 1788 Times 21 Feb. Slave trade. Captain Berkeley presented a petition from the Inhabitants of Bristol, praying for the abolition of the Slavery Trade. 1819 Illinois Emigrant 22 May The formation of the constitution had produced an entire amalgamation of parties on the slavery question. 1856 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 11 July The South acting in a body in forcing the issue of Slavery extension, by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. 1906 F. N. Thorpe Hist. N. Amer. XV. ii. 115 The slavery issue—exclusion of slavery from the Territories or extension of slavery over them—was the issue when..the Republicans assembled in convention. 1989 Jet 19 June 38/2 Detroit man leads drive for slavery reparations. 2009 I. Thomson Dead Yard x. 129 Yaws, a variant of leprosy, widespread in slavery-era Jamaica, no longer exists. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022). slaveryadj. /ˈslavəri/ Etymology: < slaver n.¹ + -y suffix¹. Like slaver; befouled with slaver; characterized by slaver; given to slavering. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > [adjective] > characterized by slobberya1398 slaveryc1430 slobbering1573 slavering1575 slabbering1583 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [adjective] > dirty with saliva slobberya1398 drivelledc1400 slaveryc1430 beslavered1598 slabbered1609 spittly1611 bespawled1612 slobbered1742 spittled1926 c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iii. xlvii. 160 I am foule, old, and slavery. 1646 in Jubilee of W. Orr (1880) 11 For calling one of ye elders a mansworne slaverie loun. 1731 Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 453 A constant weeping of a thin slavery Liquor. 1845 S. Judd Margaret i. vi. 29 Thrusting his slavery lips close to her ear. 1895 R. Kipling Second Jungle Bk. 234 He drove the dholes..from yells to hoarse slavery ravings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1548adj.c1430
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