noun
- The state of being imprisoned.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: imprisonment, incarceration, immurement
- The state of being a slave."So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity-Shakespeare
- synonyms: enslavement
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