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The state of being captive.
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A group of people/beings captive.
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The state or period of being imprisoned, confined, or enslaved.
Examples of captivity in a Sentence
Of course, in captivity animals might not act the same way they did in the wild.
He remained in captivity for ten years, but was reinstated by the French in 1645 and confirmed in his possessions by the peace of Westphalia.
Thus began the seventy years "Babylonian captivity of the Church."
That this law was not observed before the captivity we learn from Lev.
The ex-sultan was conveyed into dignified captivity at Salonica.
Upon the whole, the internal evidence of the epistle strongly favours its position as the last of the captivity epistles.
Most of the tigers in existence today live in captivity.
They are skilful hunters, however, catch fish by in geniously constructed traps, and live almost entirely on jungle-roots of these people is found in Upper Perak, and the members of this clan have acquired some knowledge of the art of planting, &c. They they have been raided by the latter, and many Negritos are to be found in captivity in some of the Malayan villages on the eastern side of the peninsula.
These dignities he relinquished for a time in order to attend the king as chaplain during his captivity in the hands of the parliament.
Thus the " Sixty Years' Captivity " came to an end and the throne passed to the house of Braganza.
We agreed to stop, eat and bed down for our second night in captivity.
On the details of the captivity Amos preserves a mysterious vagueness.
Palestine meanwhile remained quiet until 57 B.C., when Alexander, the son of Aristobulus, escaped from his Roman captivity and attempted to make himself master of his father's kingdom.
When Portugal emerged in 1640 from her sixty years' captivity to Spain, she found that her power in the Eastern seas had passed to the Dutch, and thenceforward the struggle lay between the Dutch and the English.
In a state of captivity the civet is never completely tamed, and only kept for the sake of its perfume, which is obtained in largest quantity from the male, especially when in good condition and subjected to irritation, being scraped from the pouch with a small spoon usually twice a week.
It is frequently kept in captivity in the East, and becomes tame.
This people had made an irruption into Armenia, and their attack had been so sudden that the Moslems and Christians were unable to defend themselves, and ioo,000 had been reduced to captivity.
Hamel, a Dutchman, who was shipwrecked on the coast of Quelpart in 1654, and held in captivity in Korea for thirteen years.
When Leopold I., duke of Austria, took Richard prisoner and delivered him to the emperor, Philip did his utmost by offers of money to prolong his captivity, and, allied with the English king's brother.
It was composed during James's captivity in England and celebrates his courtship of Lady Jane Beaufort.
The conception of salvation was mingled with ideas derived from the East during and after the period of captivity.
He spent a part of his boyhood in captivity in Bulgaria, whither his family was carried by the Bulgarian prince Krum in 813.
Eudoxia and her two daughters were also carried into captivity.
The archbishop for a short time shared Henry's captivity in the Tower.
He remained in captivity during the British occupation, during the disastrous retreat of the army of occupation in January 1842, and until the recapture of Kabul in the autumn of 1842.
Ferdinand, known as " the Constant," from the fortitude with which he endured captivity, died unransomed in 1 443.
The species of fish which can be kept successfully in captivity throughout their lives from egg to adult is exceedingly limited in number.
In captivity the females produce only one or two young at a birth.
Very interesting is the account of the captivity of Bishop Augusta, written by his companion the young priest Jan Bilek.
This was the First Captivity, and from it Ezekiel (one of the exiles) dates his prophecies.
Rene's captivity, and the poverty of the Angevin resources due to his ransom, enabled Alphonso of Aragon, who had been first adopted and then repudiated by Jeanne II., to make some headway in the kingdom of Naples, especially as he was already in possession of the island of Sicily.
Petrarch was now commissioned to congratulate King John upon his liberation from captivity to England.
When, a few days afterwards, Oxford was in prison and in danger of his life, Swift begged to share his captivity; and it was only on the offer being declined that he finally directed his steps towards Ireland, where he was very ill received.
Queen Eleanor, whom her husband regarded as responsible for the whole rebellion, was placed in a sort of honorable captivity, or retirement, and denied her royal state.
It was only the news of his brothers captivity in Austria which gave the intriguing prince a transient hope of success.
He was made commanderin-chief of the National Guard, and appointed by the Convention warder to the king, in which position he did all in his power to alleviate Louis's captivity.
The phrase "to bring again the captivity" would not alone suffice to prove this, for it is used in a wide sense, and perhaps means rather to "reverse the calamity," 4 but the dispersion of Israel among the nations, and the allotment of the Holy Land to new occupants, cannot fairly be referred to any calamity less than that of the captivity.
He had shared the captivity of his ill-fated cousin, the ex-sultan, Selim III., whose efforts at reform had ended in his deposition by the janissaries.
It speedily ended with his son, also called Khusru, whom Mahommed Ghori, the relentless enemy of the Ghaznivide house, carried away into captivity in 1186.
After his captivity in England, Charles of Orleans in 1440 took up his residence in the château, where in 1462 his son, afterwards Louis XII., was born.
Many are caught by means of female elephants previously tamed, and trained to decoy males into the snares prepared for subjecting them to captivity.
In 1571 he 'presented the latter portion of this work, written in Scots, to Queen Mary to amuse her in her captivity.
Words are powerless to describe the desolation of that prison-house, or the joy of the soul that is delivered out of its captivity.
But for a long time in his dreams he still saw himself in the conditions of captivity.
On the third day a German seaplane from Norderney rescued them and took them off to captivity.
Although wild leopards are quite solitary in nature, in captivity they seem to appreciate company.
An estimated 176 waterfowl taxa are held in captivity in the British Isles including 40 of the threatened taxa.
After that, the dog has no idea why he is still confined, and will usually just become frustrated at his captivity.
As of 2007, there were roughly 240 of them living in captivity inside China, with another 27 elsewhere.
Roman Brady spent years in captivity to arch-enemy Stefano DiMera.