Captivity is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CAPTIVITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being captive
• the condition of being imprisoned or confined
• state of being kept in confinement
• The state of being a captive or a prisoner.
• A state of being under control; subjection of the will or affections; bondage.
• the state of being imprisoned
• the state of being a slave

Words related to CAPTIVITY

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How to use CAPTIVITY in a sentence

• These children, sons of a gentleman and lady who had been passengers in the ill-fated ship, were kept in captivity by the savages for many years.
• So shall you continually rise in respectability, in rank and standing in this so late and so long the land of your captivity.
• They stole horses, burned houses, and killed or carried into a dreadful captivity men, women, and children.
• I was released from captivity at the end of the year 1774, and, as it happened, I was present in Moscow when Pugatchef was executed in the following year.
• The writers nearest to the time speak vaguely and moderately, merely telling us that he grew old in his captivity, and was kept in the condition of a slave.
• It seemed to me, standing in the darkness of the old Gate House, that it would be better to perish than to be dragged thither again to die of misery and harsh captivity.
• Then King John, faithful to his chivalrous creed, returned to London and captivity, dying in 1364.
• He was to them the true Joseph, who not only kept their bodies from starving, but preserved their souls from a worse than Egyptian captivity.
• Many were the stirring and pitiful stories recounted by these unfortunate fellows of the harsh treatment which they had received during their period of captivity.
• The devil grieved mightily because the fathers were taking away so many souls from his captivity, and tried to drive them from that province of Calamianes.
• He was a priest and was carried into captivity by Nebuchadnezzar.
• The date then would have been between the captivity, 605 B.
• Haggai was born in Babylon and was one of those who returned from captivity, under Zerrubbabel, according to the decree of Cyrus.
• We will risk anything rather than go back to captivity.
• Letters from Algiers, of August the 24th, inform me, that we had two vessels and their crews in captivity there, at that time.
• But the angels of God used to grind for Saint Kiaranus, as they did for him in his captivity.
• He was the only chauffeur who had ever been brought alive in captivity to Homeburg, and the whole town inspected him with the utmost care.
• Masinissa now not only promised to preserve her from captivity, but, to prevent her falling into the hands of the Romans, determined to marry her himself.
• The love uniting us will sustain us even then, and, when our captivity is over, we will return happy to our beloved country.
• She, having thus vainly sought to save Troy, with its fall fell into captivity, and to the lot of Agamemnon, with whom she died.
• He seemed to feel that he deserved his sentence, but he took a malicious delight in seeing Bobby the companion of his captivity.
• His captivity was shared by his favourite daughter, Jahanara, who since the death of her mother had ruled the imperial household and taken a prominent part in state affairs.
• The woorthy enterprise of John Foxe in delivering 266 Christians out of captivity at Alexandria, 1577.
• The man had spent close upon thirty years in captivity, and his native speech had all but dried up within him.
• Six hundred men were deemed sufficient either to destroy them or to reduce them once more to captivity.
• Twice had Nebuchadrezzar to occupy Jerusalem and carry the plotters into captivity.
• It was as if he had laid violent hands upon a spirit that yearned towards freedom, and had dragged it back into the sordid captivity from which it had so nearly escaped.
• Benito entered, and when he had told the Princess of his errand, she was only too glad to escape from her captivity and she set out at once with him for the palace of the king.
• And it sang and sang and sang, in spite of its struggles and captivity.
• To this supremacy the French first offered effectual resistance, issuing in the captivity of Avignon.
• In a few days he suffered no other penalty of captivity than inability to return to his family.
• At this moment many Mexicans, principally females and children, are in captivity among them.
• One wonders what the charm could have been that held that proud old spirit in such a miserable captivity.
• The capital surrendered after a severe siege, and the Emperor with his court was carried into captivity.
• The unhappy laborers, who, to escape death or captivity, had fled into the deserts, perished of exposure and starvation.
• Daniel was but a boy at the date of the Captivity, and little more at the time of the attempt to make a Chaldean of him.

Similar words containing CAPTIV without suffix ity

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