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Definition of Bond servant

1. Noun. Someone bound to labor without wages.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bond Servant

Literary usage of Bond servant

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

1. Mornings in the College Chapel: Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal by Francis Greenwood Peabody (1898)
"But Jesus in reality is contrasting two ideas of duty,—the duty of a bond-servant and the duty of a son. The duty of a slave is to do what is demanded of ..."

2. Records of the Past by Records of the Past Exploration Society (1904)
"There shall be no legal proceedings I'M perpetuo on the part of Baga'data, his bond servant, his messenger, his servants and the men of those cities, ..."

3. Transactions by Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society (1864)
"is two carucates: there is one plough, with one bond servant, and two borderers, and forty acres of pasture : formerly it was worth 4 shillings, ..."

4. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff (1889)
"But I say, that so long as the heir is a child, he differ- eth nothing from a bond-servant, though he is lord of all ; but is under guardians and stewards, ..."

5. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, John Chrysostom (1889)
"But I say, that so long as the heir is a child, he differ- eth nothing from a bond-servant, though he is lord of all ; but is under guardians and stewards, ..."

6. The Testimony of God Against Slavery by La Roy Sunderland (1839)
"And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond-servant. But as a hired servant, ..."

7. The Biblical Repository and Classical Review. by American Biblical Repository (1844)
"25: 39, 40: " If thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond-servant: but as an ..."

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