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captivity

imprisonment, confinement, bondage, subjection, servitude, duress, detention, incarceration, interment, limbo, enslavement, slavery, impoundment, entombment, constraint, restraint, durance, committal, the guardhouse, custody, serfdom, thralldom, durance vile; see also confinement 1, imprisonment 1, jail, pen 1, restraint 2, slavery 1.

Antonyms liberty, freedom*, independence.

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Of course, in captivity animals might not act the same way they did in the wild.
The tradition of his captivity (2 Chron.
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.
- viii.), dated from the fourth year of Darius, contains an inquiry whether the fast days that arose in the captivity are still to be observed, with a comforting and encouraging reply of the prophet.
Thus began the seventy years "Babylonian captivity of the Church."

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