Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of enslave
nounenslaving (plural enslavings)
plural enslavings
- An enslavement.
And the manifold evils which have filled the world for these thousands of years — the murders, enslavings, and robberies — the tyrannies of rulers, the oppressions of class, the persecutions of sect and party […]
1851, Herbert Spencer, Social Statics: Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness
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APA
enslaving. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enslaving
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“enslaving.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enslaving. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “enslaving,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enslaving.
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