Definition of Enslaving

1. Verb. (present participle of enslave) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Enslaving

1. enslave [v] - See also: enslave

Lexicographical Neighbors of Enslaving

ensiling
ensisternum
enskied
enskies
ensky
enskyed
enskying
enslave
enslaved
enslavedness
enslavement
enslavements
enslaver
enslavers
enslaves
enslaving (current term)
ensmallen
ensmallened
ensmallening
ensmallens
ensnare
ensnared
ensnarement
ensnarer
ensnarers
ensnares
ensnarest
ensnareth
ensnaring
ensnarl

Literary usage of Enslaving

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bible Defence of Slavery: And Origin, Fortunes, and History of the Negro Race by Josiah Priest (1852)
"... or the white nations, enslaving the descendants of Ham, have been fulfilled, and are now in progress to that effect—Number of the sons of Japheth—Their ..."

2. Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British by Marion Mills Miller, United States Congress, Great Britain Parliament (1913)
"of Illinois, to the Message: "enslaving the Whites to Free the Blacks." THE Union victory at Antietam [Sharpsburg], Md., on September 18-19, 1862, ..."

3. Great Debates in American Hist: From the Debates in the British Parliament by United States Congress, Great Britain Parliament, Marion Mills Miller (1913)
"of Illinois, to the Message: "enslaving the Whites to Free the Blacks." THE Union victory at Antietam [Sharpsburg], Md., on September 18-19, 1862, ..."

4. Sinfulness of American Slavery: Proved from Its Evil Sources; Its Injustice by Charles Elliott, Benjamin Franklin Tefft (1851)
"The enslaving of children is a mere substitute for the African slave-trade. How was the system of slavery in this country commenced, and subsequently ..."

5. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch (1885)
"for enslaving her afterward by a base and treacherous usurpation. But then, on the other side, those that knew not how to live in a democracy, ..."

6. The Exiles of Florida, Or, The Crimes Committed by Our Government Against by Joshua Reed Giddings (1858)
"FURTHER DIFFICULTIES IN THE WORK OF enslaving THE EXILES. General Gaines in person defends those left at New Orleans —He appeals from the judgment — Effect ..."

7. Everybody's St. Francis by Maurice Francis Egan (1920)
"... goods of widows and orphans, enslaving these helpless creatures by making them their wards. THE FOUNDATION OF THE THIRD ORDER IN 1221, Francis developed ..."

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