The condition or state of being bound; servitude, bondage, or the relationship of a bond or constraint.
From bond + -ship suffix (Old English -scipe meaning 'state or condition'). The suffix -ship appears in many English words describing conditions or relationships like friendship, kinship, and partnership.
The -ship suffix is like a Swiss Army knife for describing human relationships and conditions—bondship, friendship, hardship—it's a 1,000-year-old formula for turning a noun into a state of being.
'-ship' suffix applied to bondage; gendered by exclusion when 'bondmanship' centered male experience, rendering women's bondage linguistically invisible.
Use 'bondage' or 'servitude' directly; more accurate and avoids euphemism masking coerced labor.
["bondage","servitude"]
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