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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A woman bondservant.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A female slave. Also improperly written bondswoman.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A woman who is bound in servitude; a female slave.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A woman who is a slave, or in bondage.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a female slave
  2. n. a female bound to serve without wages

Etymologies

  1. Middle English bondewomman, from bonde, serf; see bondage. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The bondwoman is a free woman compared with the wife.”

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  • “Agar the bondwoman is a figure of the mount Sinaiwhcre the peo - ple of ifrae I recciued the law: Sara the frcewoman is a figure of the hcaucnly Hierufalemj from whenfe pioceedeth the Gofpell.”

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  • “The fine for defect is calculated on the basis of how much a virgin bondwoman or a favorite slave would be worth and how much less such a bondwoman who was not a virgin would be worth.”

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  • “She was the only one of us High speakers born of the Blood, but on this side of the mountains she was just another bondwoman.”

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  • “I helped you and your men to cross the Ferinus and for reward you gave me to the arthygater to be a bondwoman.”

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  • “Nasthai began to entrust me with chores that took me outside the compound, such as fetching mountain water from the fountain of Nephron, a duty I shared with the bondwoman Knotais.”

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  • “She sat up and chatted with the bathmistress, who was neither bondwoman nor noble but something in between.”

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  • “Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this, bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.”

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  • “And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.”

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  • “And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.”

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