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bondservant

noun

Etymology

From bond + servant.

  1. derived from servant
  2. inherited from servaunt
  3. compounded as bondservant — “bond + servant”

Definitions

  1. An indentured servant.

    • The captain was an upstart, a product of the democratic idea operating upon the poor white man, the descendant of the indentured bondservant and the socially unfit.
    • The New King James Version of the New Testament translates the word δοῦλος (doulos) as "bondservant" in 2 Peter 1:1 and Jude 1:1

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA