Word Meanings - RULE-MONGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A stickler for rules; a slave of rules Hare.

Related words: (words related to RULE-MONGER)

• SLAVEOCRACY
  See SLAVOCRACY
• SLAVEHOLDING
  Holding persons in slavery.
• SLAVERY
  1. The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught! Sterne. I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this
• SLAVEBORN
  Born in slavery.
• SLAVERER
  A driveler; an idiot.
• SLAVEHOLDER
  One who holds slaves.
• SLAVERING
  Drooling; defiling with saliva. -- Slav"er*ing*ly, adv.
• SLAVER
  1. A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship. 2. A person engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves; a slave merchant, or slave trader. The slaver's hand was on the latch, He seemed in haste to go. Longfellow.
• STICKLER
  One who stickles. Specifically: -- One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire. Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets whom the others should obey. Sir P. Sidney. Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the
• SLAVEY
  A maidservant.
• SLAVE
  See SLAV
• ENSLAVEMENT
  The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude. A fresh enslavement to their enemies. South.
• ENSLAVEDNESS
  State of being enslaved.
• REENSLAVE
  To enslave again.
• CERULESCENT
  Tending to cerulean; light bluish.
• WHITE SLAVE
  A woman held in involuntary confinement for purposes of prostitution; loosely, any woman forced into unwilling prostitution.
• ANTISLAVERY
  Opposed to slavery. -- n.
• DISENSLAVE
  To free from bondage or slavery; to disenthrall. He shall disenslave and redeem his soul. South.
• WHITE SLAVER
  A person engaged in procuring or holding a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.
• PROSLAVERY
  Favoring slavery. -- n.
• ENSLAVER
  One who enslaves. Swift.
• ENSLAVE
  To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence. The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose. Milton. Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will. Cowper.
• BESLAVE
  To enslave. Bp. Hall.
• BONDSLAVE
  A person in a state of slavery; one whose person and liberty are subjected to the authority of a master.