SERVITUDE Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

servitude

noun

ˈsər-və-ˌtüd

as in slavery

the state of being an enslaved person the Fugitive Slave Act had the effect of returning enslaved people who had made it to freedom in the North to a brutal life of servitude in the South

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Recent Examples of servitude Prop 6, if passed, would amend the California Constitution to remove the provision that allows involuntary servitude in jails and prisons as a punishment for crime. —

Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2024 Much like the 13th Amendment in the U.S. Constitution, many states across the country have an exception for slavery or involuntary servitude, allowing it as punishment for a crime written into state law. —

Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2024 State prisons, which employ nearly 40,000 inmates for 16 to 74 cents per hour, would no longer be allowed to use involuntary servitude as punishment for crime or discipline for those who refuse to work. —

Shawna Chen, Axios, 16 Oct. 2024 Maria’s childhood is over, early, replaced with unpaid servitude. —

Tomas Tranströmer, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for servitude