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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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- There she is, sitting now in her state-room, surrounded by a mixed multitude of little and big carpet-bags, boxes, baskets, each containing some separate responsibility which she is tying, binding up, packing, or fastening, with a face of great earnestness.†
Chpt 1.15
- To him she imparted those mysterious intimations which the soul feels, as the cords begin to unbind, ere it leaves its clay forever.†
Chpt 2.26 *unbind = unwrapstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbind means not and reverses the meaning of bind. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- that golden tress was charmed; each hair had in it a spell of terror and remorse for thee, and was used by a mightier power to bind thy cruel hands from inflicting uttermost evil on the helpless!†
Chpt 2.35
- Did He not say that his, mission, in all ages, was to bind up the broken-hearted, and set at liberty them that are bruised?†
Chpt 2.38 *
- He came to bind up the broken-hearted, and comfort all that mourn.†
Chpt 2.38
- Having been called in the furnace of injustice and oppression, they have need to bind closer to their hearts that sublime doctrine of love and forgiveness, through which alone they are to conquer, which it is to be their mission to spread over the continent of Africa.†
Chpt 2.43
- He healeth the broken hearted, and bindeth up their wounds.†
Chpt 2.44bindeth = holds together (connects or unites) or wrapsstandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "It bindeth" in older English, today we say "It binds."
- But, since the legislative act of 1850, when she heard, with perfect surprise and consternation, Christian and humane people actually recommending the remanding escaped fugitives into slavery, as a duty binding on good citizens,—when she heard, on all hands, from kind, compassionate and estimable people, in the free states of the North, deliberations and discussions as to what Christian duty could be on this head,—she could only think, These men and Christians cannot know what slavery is; if they did, such a question could never be open for discussion.†
Chpt 2.45
Definitions:
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(bind as in: bind hands, a wound, or a people) to tie, hold, or unite together; or something that does so
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(bind as in: a binding contract) constrain or require
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(bind as in: It put me in a bind.) a difficult situation
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) For more specialized senses of bind, see a comprehensive dictionary. For example, the word can refer to constipation and has specialized meanings in law, chemistry, logic, and linguistics.