captivity
noun
the state or period of being held, imprisoned, enslaved, or confined.
captivities
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pluralof captivity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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What ensues is a dialogue wherein the djinn explains his various loves and captivities to Alithea, who listens enraptured with her wet hair wrapped in a towel.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2022
We mean the sense of an integral national being, ever- living in the bosoms of the people of Israel, throughout all their different dispersions and captivities.
From Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter
Compared with it, the exodus of the children of Israel from Egypt, their passage through the Red Sea and through Jordan, their captivities and returns, would be as nothing.
From Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood by John Nicholas Lenker
The early annals of the West are full of the sad stories of such captivities, and of the women who took part in these terrible scenes.
From Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" by William Worthington Fowler
The church was built to guard the emblems of the two captivities.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
