Plural of captivity; multiple states or periods of being held prisoner or kept under control.
From captivity (from Latin captivitas, derived from captivus meaning 'taken prisoner') plus the regular plural suffix -es.
The word captivity has a profound weight in human history—the biblical Captivities of the Jews, the Middle Passage, and countless other captivities mark when entire peoples lost freedom, making the plural form heavy with historical trauma.
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