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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun captivity has 2 senses
- captivity(n = noun.state) immurement, imprisonment, incarceration - the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon" is a kind of confinement
- captivity(n = noun.state) enslavement - the state of being a slave; "So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity" is a kind of subjection, subjugation
has particulars: durance, life imprisonment, internment
Derived form adjective captive1
Derived form adjective captive1
CIDE DICTIONARY
captivity, n. [L. captivitas: cf. F. captivité.].
- The state of being a captive or a prisoner. [1913 Webster]"More celebrated in his captivity that in his greatest triumphs." [1913 Webster]
- A state of being under control; subjection of the will or affections; bondage. [1913 Webster]"Sink in the soft captivity together."
Syn. -- Imprisonment; confinement; bondage; subjection; servitude; slavery; thralldom; serfdom.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
captivity, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a the condition or circumstances of being a captive. b a period of captivity.
2 (the Captivity) the captivity of the Jews in Babylon in the 6th c. BC.
1 a the condition or circumstances of being a captive. b a period of captivity.
2 (the Captivity) the captivity of the Jews in Babylon in the 6th c. BC.
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captivity
absolutism, bond service, bondage, close arrest, confinement, control, custody, debt slavery, deprivation of freedom, detention, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, domination, durance, durance vile, duress, enslavement, enthrallment, feudalism, feudality, helotism, helotry, house arrest, immuration, immurement, imprisonment, incarceration, indentureship, internment, jailing, peonage, restraint, serfdom, serfhood, servility, servitude, slavery, subjection, subjugation, term of imprisonment, thrall, thralldom, tyranny, vassalage, villenageROGET THESAURUS
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Restraint
N restraint, hindrance, coercion, cohibition, constraint, repression, suppression, discipline, control, confinement, durance, duress, imprisonment, incarceration, coarctation, entombment, mancipation, durance vile, limbo, captivity, blockade, arrest, arrestation, custody, keep, care, charge, ward, restringency, curb, lettres de cachet, limitation, restriction, protection, monopoly, prohibition, prisoner, repressionist, restrained, constrained, imprisoned, pent up, jammed in, wedged in, under lock and key, under restraint, under hatches, in swaddling clothes, on parole, in custody, doing time, cohibitive, coactive, stiff, restringent, strait-laced, hidebound, barkbound, ice bound, wind bound, weather bound, cabined cribbed confined, in Lob's pound, laid by the heels.
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