Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Bondage

Bondage (-aj) , noun

[Late Latin bondagium. See Bond, a.]

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. — Dryden
2.
Obligation; tie of duty.
He must resolve by no means to be... brought under the bondage of observing oaths. — South
3.
(Old Eng. Law) Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.