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- noun Plural form of
captivity .
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Examples
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The Hebrew is plural, "captivities"; to express the captivities of different ages of their history, as well as the diversity of places in which they were and are dispersed. before your eyes -- Incredible as the event may seem, your own eyes with delight shall see it.
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This weird idea of endless captivities and solo suffering (no, he was never held prisoner in a city; wtf) as the motivator and impetus for All That Comes After is so very bizarre that I genuinely don't understand it.
Mongol The Movie kateelliott 2008
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They tell their stories in alternating chapters, creating a harrowing narrative of two captivities.
A marriage held hostage by the Taliban Post 2010
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They tell their stories in alternating chapters, creating a harrowing narrative of two captivities.
A marriage held hostage by the Taliban Post 2010
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This weird idea of endless captivities and solo suffering (no, he was never held prisoner in a city; wtf) as the motivator and impetus for All That Comes After is so very bizarre that I genuinely don't understand it.
kateelliott: Mongol The Movie kateelliott 2008
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Isn't it odd that McCain and Solzhenitsyn would have experienced such nearly identical events during their respective captivities?
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Reminiscences of Forty-Three Years in India: Including the Cabul disasters, captivities in Afghanistan and the Punjaub, and a narrative of the mutinies in Rajputana by Sir George Lawrence
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Taliban militants strike in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province 2008
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The skall of a gall (for every dime he yawpens that momouth you could park your ford in it) who has papertreated him into captivities with his inside man by a hocksheat of starvision for an avrageto-peace of parchment, cooking up his lenses to be my apoclogypst, the recreuter of conscraptions, let him be asservent to Kinahaun!
Finnegans Wake 2006
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The captivities of million in central and Eastern Europe will be remembered as one of the greatest wrongs of history.
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The only thought that had sustained her through her two captivities had been the thought of him and the hope of seeing him again.
One Night for Love Balogh, Mary 1999
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