Bondage vs. Imprisonment — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bondage and Imprisonment
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Bondage
The state of one who is bound as a slave or serf.
Imprisonment
Imprisonment (from imprison, via French emprisonner, originally from [Latin] prensio, arrest, from prehendere, prendere, "to seize") in law is the specific state of being physically incarcerated or confined in an institutional setting such as a prison. Courts of the United States, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have recognized that the minimum period in an indeterminate sentence that was actually imposed by a court of law is the official term of imprisonment.
Bondage
A state of subjection to a force, power, or influence.
Imprisonment
To put in or as if in prison; confine.
Bondage
The practice of being physically restrained, as with cords or handcuffs, as a means of attaining sexual gratification.
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Imprisonment
A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.
Bondage
Villeinage.
Imprisonment
Putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
Bondage
The state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery.
In Judeo-Christian tradition, the Israelites fled bondage at the hands of the Egyptians, only to wander in the wilderness for the next four decades.
Imprisonment
The state of being imprisoned;
He was held in captivity until he died
The imprisonment of captured soldiers
His ignominious incarceration in the local jail
He practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon
Bondage
(by extension) The state of lacking freedom; constraint.
He lived in financial bondage to his cocaine habit; no matter how much he earned, it all seemed to disappear up his nose.
Imprisonment
The act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
Bondage
The practice of physically restraining people for sexual pleasure, such as by tying up or shackling.
Their marriage broke up when she discovered he had been engaging in bondage games with a local dominatrix while he was supposedly working out at the gym.
Bondage
(attributive) Applied to clothing with many buckles, zips, etc., associated with punk and goth subcultures.
Bondage trousers; bondage jeans; bondage pants
Bondage
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.
Bondage
Obligation; tie of duty.
He must resolve by no means to be . . . brought under the bondage of observing oaths.
Bondage
Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.
Bondage
The state of being under the control of another person
Bondage
Sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners
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