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Noun
/ˈbändij/,
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bondages, plural;
  1. The state of being a slave
    • - the deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt's bondage
  2. A state of being greatly constrained by circumstances or obligations
    • - young women lost to the bondage of early motherhood
  3. Sexual practice that involves the tying up or restraining of one partner

  1. the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power; "he was in bondage to fear:; "he sought release from his bondage to Satan"; "a self freed from the bondage of time"
  2. sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners
  3. Bondage is a 1992 play by American playwright David Henry Hwang. It deals with issues of race and racial stereotypes by placing a fully disguised man and woman in an S and M parlor playing out sexual games. ...
  4. Bondage is the use of restraints for the sexual pleasure of the parties involved. It may be used in its own right, as in the case of rope bondage and breast bondage, or as part of sexual activity or BDSM activity. ...
  5. The Bondage is a 2006 film written and directed by Eric Allen Bell. The film had limited release.
  6. The state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery; The state of lacking freedom; constraint; The practice of tying people up for sexual pleasure
  7. (bondages) mental: cetaso vinibandha (q.v.).
  8. Of Israel in Egypt (Exo 2:23, Exo 2:25; 5), which is called the "house of bondage" (Exo 13:3; Exo 20:2). This word is used also with reference to the captivity in Babylon (Isa 14:3), and the oppression of the Persian king (Ezr 9:8, Ezr 9:9).
  9. Portrayal of a character bound or chained or otherwise restrained; there are collectors who feel a bondage cover makes a comic book of more interest.
  10. to be subject to an owner or master, such as slavery to Satan; the slave market of sin, which Christ paid the price of His blood for us to be freed from; slavery in general; imprisonment.
  11. Spiritual Freedom and bondage are contrasted many times in the Course. [Note that technically freedom and bondage are a vertical duality (i.e., spirit and ego), not a horizontal ego polarity.] One or the other is our choice because they are irreconcilable. ...