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Definition of Slavelike
1. Adjective. Suitable for a slave or servant.
Definition of Slavelike
1. Adjective. Resembling a slave, or resembling conditions of slavery ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slavelike
Literary usage of Slavelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1917)
"To-morrow, brightest-eyed of Avon's train, To-morrow thou art slavelike bound
and sold, Another's and another's ; haste away, Winde through the willows, ..."
2. pennsylvania archives by Pennsylvania State Library, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth (1878)
"That we will not allow any one to remove, without before paying or giving security
is indeed not so slavelike and odious for free people, as your Honors ..."
3. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1846)
"... the stream, no longer dashing from its mountain heights, will ever after creep,
humbled and slavelike, in a lowly channel far beneath its present bed. ..."
4. The Rulers of the South: Sicily, Calabria, Malta by Francis Marion Crawford (1900)
"slavelike, he abandoned his comrades and escaped from the city, but was taken
and brought before the consul. • Being asked questions about the state of the ..."
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