Explore Bondservants through 4 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Bondservants in a sentence
Bondservants meaning
plural of bondservant
Using Bondservants
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of bondservant
Context around Bondservants
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bondservants
- In this selection, "bondservants" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, became, manchu, allowed, due, registered and entertainers stand out and add context to how "bondservants" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and allowed bondservants to return and non manchu bondservants registered under. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bondservants" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bondservants
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Banner Armies were organized along ethnic lines, namely Manchu and Mongol, but included non-Manchu bondservants registered under the household of their Manchu masters. (24 words)
On the other hand, slaves or bondservants, entertainers (including prostitutes and actors), and those low-level employees of government officials were the "mean people". (24 words)
Periodically "clean slate" decrees were signed by rulers which cancelled all the rural (but not commercial) debt and allowed bondservants to return to their homes. (25 words)
According to Hudson, the purpose of these decrees was to prevent debts mounting to a degree that they threatened fighting force which could happen if peasants lost the subsistence land or became bondservants due to the inability to repay the debt. (41 words)
Periodically "clean slate" decrees were signed by rulers which cancelled all the rural (but not commercial) debt and allowed bondservants to return to their homes. (25 words)
Banner Armies were organized along ethnic lines, namely Manchu and Mongol, but included non-Manchu bondservants registered under the household of their Manchu masters. (24 words)
Example sentences (4)
According to Hudson, the purpose of these decrees was to prevent debts mounting to a degree that they threatened fighting force which could happen if peasants lost the subsistence land or became bondservants due to the inability to repay the debt.
Banner Armies were organized along ethnic lines, namely Manchu and Mongol, but included non-Manchu bondservants registered under the household of their Manchu masters.
On the other hand, slaves or bondservants, entertainers (including prostitutes and actors), and those low-level employees of government officials were the "mean people".
Periodically "clean slate" decrees were signed by rulers which cancelled all the rural (but not commercial) debt and allowed bondservants to return to their homes.