Explore Servitude through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like bondage or slavery. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Servitude meaning
- The state of being a slave; slavery; being forced to work for others or do their bidding without one's consent or against one's will, either in perpetuity or for a period of time over which one has little or no control.
- A qualified beneficial interest severed or fragmented from the ownership of an inferior property and attached to a superior property or to some person other than the owner; the most common form is an easement.
- Service rendered in the army or navy.
Using Servitude
- The main meaning on this page is: The state of being a slave; slavery; being forced to work for others or do their bidding without one's consent or against one's will, either in perpetuity or for a period of time over which one has little or no control. | A qualified beneficial interest severed or fragmented from the ownership of an inferior property and attached to a superior property or to some person other than the owner; the most common form is an easement. | Service rendered in the army or navy.
- Useful related words include: bondage, slavery, thrall, thralldom.
- In the example corpus, servitude often appears in combinations such as: indentured servitude, of servitude, into servitude.
Context around Servitude
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Servitude
- In this selection, "servitude" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, indentured, involuntary, forced, followed, persists and nurse stand out and add context to how "servitude" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and indentured servitude of adults and and involuntary servitude as punishment. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "servitude" sits close to words such as abbotsford, adkins and adventist, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with servitude
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They have fulfilled Huxley’s prophecy by loving their servitude. (10 words)
Along with a sharp rise in indentured servitude and sex trafficking as the funding methods. (15 words)
They don't want to leave like the prisoners forced into indentured servitude on phony charges. (16 words)
However, it did let us know that they wanted to pass information, that there was a group of about 6 or 7 individuals who were currently at a departure gate looking to leave the country, who were subjected to indentured servitude. (41 words)
Last week, homeowners on Montevista and Papillons streets, who have backyards backing on to the Hydro-Québec servitude or with backyards encroaching on the servitude, were contacted by Hydro-Québec and given details about the timeline for the work. (39 words)
That tendency towards servitude persists to this day, with a solid majority of Russians willing not just to prostrate themselves before Vladimir Putin but to look back upon Iosif Stalin’s savage misrule with warmth and devotion. (37 words)
Why revisit a stormtrooper’s training and give them the means to defend themselves when there are always more people to force into servitude? (24 words)
Example sentences (20)
Last week, homeowners on Montevista and Papillons streets, who have backyards backing on to the Hydro-Québec servitude or with backyards encroaching on the servitude, were contacted by Hydro-Québec and given details about the timeline for the work.
A man who raped his sister in law, who was also a slave, and kept in forced servitude his own children,” Nurse tweeted at Adams.
Colorado became the first state in recent years to revise its constitution in 2018 to ban slavery and involuntary servitude, followed by Utah and Nebraska in 2020.
If they lose, though, they'll be subjected to a lifetime of servitude with no way out.
Last year, voters in Vermont, Oregon, Tennessee and Alabama approved historic ballot measures that removed slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime from their state constitutions, which could lead to limitations on forced prison labor.
Magic isn’t feared so much as looked down upon; those born with power are cast off into lives of servitude in which they are branded with a tattoo across the cheek.
Passion exposes capitalism as being incompatible with overall social well-being because, time and time again, passion is punished while mindless servitude is rewarded.
That same year, California legislators passed a bill that the enslavement of Indigenous children and indentured servitude of adults, and banned intentional fires.
That tendency towards servitude persists to this day, with a solid majority of Russians willing not just to prostrate themselves before Vladimir Putin but to look back upon Iosif Stalin’s savage misrule with warmth and devotion.
The Spectre is incredibly powerful, and is gifted omnipotence due to his servitude of the Presence, although he has been stripped of this power before.
The Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber comedic musical follows the biblical story of Joseph, the favourite of Jacob’s twelve sons, and his journey to Egypt after being sold into servitude by his jealous siblings.
They don't want to leave like the prisoners forced into indentured servitude on phony charges.
They have fulfilled Huxley’s prophecy by loving their servitude.
Why revisit a stormtrooper’s training and give them the means to defend themselves when there are always more people to force into servitude?
Along with a sharp rise in indentured servitude and sex trafficking as the funding methods.
Among the sticking points was a prohibition, imposed by the Americans, on the Moro practice of slavery, which Wagner says was more like “indenture or debt servitude” — but it was a form of slavery nonetheless.
Further, Germany’s political and military servitude to the United States is not only about a great power that succumbed to the U.S. order, but also about the United States castrating it for good.
However, it did let us know that they wanted to pass information, that there was a group of about 6 or 7 individuals who were currently at a departure gate looking to leave the country, who were subjected to indentured servitude.
Mary is a model caricature of servitude: nurse to Eileen, timekeeper for Robert, patient therapist to Colin, maid to all.
Thus, unlike Winston Smith in the novel, we are not doomed to a drab life of miserable servitude with no way out.
Common combinations with servitude
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- indentured servitude 16×
- of servitude 10×
- into servitude 7×
- involuntary servitude 6×
- servitude of 6×
- servitude to 6×
- servitude in 5×
- servitude and 5×
- in servitude 5×
- or servitude 4×