Captivity: alternatives and connections

Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.

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The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing.

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The act of subjugating, or the state of being subjugated.

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Continuance; duration. See Endurance.

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Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.

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A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy, in war; one kept in bondage or in the power of another.

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A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy, in war; one kept in bondage or in the power of another.

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The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude.

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The act iif immuring, or the state of being immured; imprsonment.

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The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.

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