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embondage

embondage verb: to bring into bondage; to enslave.

Verb

embondage (third-person singular simple present embondages, present participle embondaging, simple past and past participle embondaged)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To bring into bondage; to enslave.
    • So that the liberty of God's people stands in the truth, and their communion in it, and in the perfect spiritual law of Christ Jesus, which delivers and preserves them from every evil thing that doth or would embondage.1681, William Penn, A Brief Examination of Spiritual Liberty

Forms of embondage

third-person singular presentembondages
present participleembondaging
past participleembondaged
pastembondaged

Origin of embondage

From em- + bondage.

Questions about embondage

What does embondage mean?
Embondage means to bring into bondage; to enslave.
What part of speech is embondage?
Embondage is a verb.
What is the past tense of embondage?
The past tense of embondage is embondaged.

Words near embondage in the dictionary

  1. embolus
  2. emboluses
  3. emboly
  4. embonate
  5. embonates
  6. embondage
  7. embondaged
  8. embondages
  9. embondaging
  10. embonic acid
  11. embonpoint

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