different between imprisonment vs slavery

English

Alternative forms

• emprisonment (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman emprisonement, from Old French emprisonnement. See imprison +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?p??zn?.m?nt/

Noun

imprisonment (countable and uncountable, plural imprisonments)

1. A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.
   • Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by forcibly detaining one in the public streets.

   • Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]

Synonyms

• incarceration
• jaildom

Derived terms

• life imprisonment

Translations

English

Etymology 1

From slave +? -ery.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sle?v??i/, /?sle?v?i/

Noun

slavery (usually uncountable, plural slaveries)

1. An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.
2. A condition of servitude endured by a slave.
3. (figuratively) A condition in which one is captivated or subjugated, as by greed or drugs.
   • 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley,"The Revolt of Islam", canto 8, stanza 16,

     Man seeks for gold in mines that he may weave / A lasting chain for his own slavery.

Translations

See also

• debt bondage
• bonded labor
• bonded labour

Etymology 2

slaver +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?slæv??i/, /?slæv?i/

Adjective

slavery (comparative more slavery, superlative most slavery)

1. Covered in slaver; slobbery.

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “slavery”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• slavery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “slavery” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

Anagrams

• Laverys, Varleys