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Bondwoman   Listen
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Bondwoman  n.  (pl. bondwomen)  A woman who is a slave, or in bondage. "He who was of the bondwoman."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Bondwoman" Quotes from Famous Books



... religion has been a feast; the partaking of God's bounties, in the way of nature, has been consecrated to a more immediate communion with God Himself. For instance, when Isaac was weaned, Abraham "made a great feast[3]," and then it was that Sarah prophesied; "Cast out this bondwoman and her son," she said, prophesying the introduction of the spirit, grace, and truth, which the Gospel contains, instead of the bondage of the outward forms of the Law. Again, it was at a feast ...
— Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII (of 8) • John Henry Newman



Words linked to "Bondwoman" :   bondswoman, bondmaid, bond servant, slave



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