Meanings
nouncaptivance (usually uncountable, plural captivances)
plural captivances
- obsoleterareuncountableusuallyCaptivity.
With that he gan at large to her dilate / The whole discourse of his captivance sad […]
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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