[f. ENTHRALL v. + -MENT.] The action of enthralling; the state of being enthralled; slavery; sometimes in pl. Chiefly fig.

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1611.  Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xvi. § 21. The King of France might seeme to haue sustained a grieuous losse by the enthralment of this Duke.

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1636.  trans. Florus, 258. Cataline … was thrust into a treason for inthralment of his native Countrey.

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1645.  Milton, Tetrach. (1851), 187. Ther can be neither peace, nor joy, nor love, but an enthrallment.

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1794.  G. Wakefield, Dk. of York, 33. To weep over the enthralment of our species.

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1805.  Wordsw., Prel. (1850), 87. Life, In its late course of even days with all Their smooth enthralment.

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1818.  Keats, Endym., I. 798. There are … enthralments far More self-destroying.

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1828.  D’Israeli, Charles I., I. iv. 77. This tenderness in all probability was but the temporary enthralment of the eyes.

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1876.  Bancroft, Hist. U. S., V. Index 545. [Religious freedom] rises from inthralments of the hand of violence.

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