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captivity
Nouncaptivity has 2 senses
captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurement - 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" --1is a kind ofconfinement --1has particulars: durance; life imprisonment; internment
enslavement, captivity - the state of being a slave; "So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity"--Shakespeare --2is a kind ofsubjugation, subjection