0 the state of being under the control of someone else and of having no freedom:
1 the state of being under the control of someone else and of having no freedom; the condition of a slave
Self-respect increasingly demanded a coat, however plain, devoid of the stigma of servitude.
But a warning to those who prefer servitude, or become partisans of the enemy, for we will remove your heads.
The order would appear to have bordered on impressment and amounted to bonded servitude for the duration of the war if necessary.
He considered reverence for age an empty convention that confined the human mind in its servitude.
Certainly, in some sense, more than seventy years of penal servitude have been handed out.
By its very nature it is dedicated to destroying what is essential to jahiliyya: the servitude of human to - human.
Most were enemies of the traditional patriarchal order and all it stood for - old-style family life, police rule, human servitude.
Their "mutual servitude" can easily slip into reciprocal idolatry, however.