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noun the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power; he sought release from his bondage to Satana self freed from the bondage of time"
noun the state of being under the control of another person
noun sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners
originInherited from Middle English bondage (“serfdom”), from British Medieval Latin bondagium (“an inferior tenure held by a bond or husbandman”), from Middle English bond (“tenant farmer, serf”), from Old English bonda (“householder, husband, head of a family”), of Old Norse origin. Sense development influenced by the unrelated terms bond and bind.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0