Associations to the word «Captivity»

Wiktionary

CAPTIVITY, noun. The state of being captive.
CAPTIVITY, noun. (obsolete) A group of people/beings captive.
CAPTIVITY, noun. The state or period of being imprisoned, confined, or enslaved.

Dictionary definition

CAPTIVITY, noun. 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".
CAPTIVITY, noun. The state of being a slave; "So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity"--Shakespeare.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats