Bondage /(-ā̇j)/

Bond·age

Bondage

n.
  1. The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity.
    The King, when he designed you for my guard, Resolved he would not make my bondage hard.
  2. Obligation; tie of duty.
    He must resolve by no means to be . . . brought under the bondage of observing oaths.
  3. Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner. (Old Eng. Law)