theowdomthewdomn.
Obsolete exc. Historical.
The condition of a ‘theow’ or slave; slavery, bondage, thraldom. (In Old English also in sense ‘service’, without connotation of servility.)
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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-
c893 tr. Orosius Hist. i. x. §6 Þæt men hie mehten aliesan mid feo of þeowdome.
a950 in J. Stevenson Rituale Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis (1840) 6 In nedhernisse vel in ðeadome ic bego.
c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 524 Ege is twyfeald, and ðeowdom is twyfeald.
c1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 675 (Laud) Hi hit heafden gefreod..of ealle þewdom.
c1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 963 Hi hit freodon..wið ealle weoruld þeudom.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 99 Men weren alesde from deofles ðeowdome.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3611 I þeowwdom unnderr laferrd.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 14779 Vt off þewwdomess bandess.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 27 Summe inprisun. summe inmuchele þouwedomes as oxnen oðer assen.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 229 Dardanisc kun..woneð in þisse londe..inne þeowe-dome [c1300 Otho þeudome].
c1320 Cast. Love 247 Whon he him serwede in þewdome [v.rr. thewdome, þedome].
c1425 Eng. Conq. Irel. 138 Nether al to be vndone, ne fully I-broght yn-to theudome.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Theodom (Sax.), servitude.
1833 J. Galt in Fraser's Mag. 8 497 Too fond of literature to relish the distasteful theodom of a tutor.]
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