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enslaven

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Etymology 1

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Fromenslave +‎-en.

Adjective

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enslaven (comparativemoreenslaven,superlativemostenslaven)

  1. (dated, poetic or archaic)enslaved
    • 1846, Horace Smith,Miscellaneous poems, page58:
      Let the dotard and craven by fear beenslaven.
    • 1858,Carnatic Stipendaries of 1801:
      Your Petitioner having for immense of time served His Highness the Nabob Homdud ul Omrah with cautiousness and close attention even to that degree not to mind his meals or either rest as if he wasenslaven to him,[]
    • 1889, Charles Edward Barns,Solitarius to His Dæmon, page112:
      By this thirst are we taught that in the universality of law, nothing is fortuitous or arbitrary of God or mankind ; nothing rewardless or crownless that not so deserves ; nothing that thinks can long remainenslaven to common trivial cyphers, and in the calm assurance of these alone is the scrutiny of intellect in all things justified.
    • 2014, James J. Wilhelm,Lyrics of the Middle Ages: An Anthology, page131:
      By your sacred cross
      They're allenslaven.

Etymology 2

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From a verbal use of Etymology 1; or fromen- +‎slave +‎-en.

Verb

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enslaven (third-person singular simple presentenslavens,present participleenslavening,simple past and past participleenslavened)

  1. (transitive) toenslave
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