Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A slave; one who is subjected to the authority of another, and who must give his service without hire.
GNU Webster's 1913
- A slave; one who is bound to service without wages.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone bound to labor without wages
Examples
“But she idolized him, and was proud to be his bond-servant.”
“A bond-servant could not be summarily judged or too badly beaten.”
“Laris, the probe confirms that all you did was done as a bond-servant under orders and under threat of death or injury to you or your beast.”
“There was a law on all Terran-settled planets stating that a bond-servant could not be held accountable for her master's misdeeds or her own under orders if she had no opportunity to inform, she feared crippling reprisals if she attempted to inform and failed, or -- if she was in danger of death, or if she was saving another under that same threat.”
“A bond-servant couldn't be punished if she testified under probe she'd been in fear of her life or safety, or the life or safety of another.”
“Please let him forget her words, she thought, let him write them off as just a pert bond-servant.”
“You've done a lot of reading, you know the law on a bond-servant.”
“After all, Laris was a bond-servant and the money she made went into circus coffers.”
“After that who would notice or care that some bond-servant had vanished?”
“He “emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant … being made in the likeness of men” Philippians 2:7.”
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