captivance

noun

captivance

noun

Etymology From captive + -ance.

1

Obsolete, Rare, Usually Captivity.

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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