[f. ENSLAVE v. + -MENT.] The action of enslaving; the state of being enslaved.
1692. South, Serm. (1697), I. 474. Returning to a fresh Enslavement to their Enemies.
1821. New Monthly Mag., II. 136. The unjust enslavement of Italy.
1839. J. Brenan (title), Old and New Logic;… Lord Bacon delivered the Human Mind from its 2000 Years’ Enslavement under Aristotle.
1844. Ld. Brougham, Brit. Const. (1862), Introd. 21. No alternations of enslavement and emancipation.
1849. Grote, Greece, II. lxvii. (1862), VI. 67. How lamentably they [Greek philosophers] were hampered by enslavement to the popular phraseology.
