Captivate vs Captivity - What's the difference?
captivate | captivity |
To attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.
* Washington Irving
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, title= (obsolete) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.
* Shakespeare
* Glanvill
The state of being captive.
(obsolete) A group of people/beings captive.
The state or period of being imprisoned, confined, or enslaved.
In obsolete terms the difference between captivate and captivity
is that captivate is to take prisoner; to capture; to subdue while captivity is a group of people/beings captive.As a verb captivate
is to attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.As a noun captivity is
the state of being captive.captivate
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Verb
(captivat)- small landscapes of captivating loveliness
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
- Their woes whom fortune captivates .
- 'Tis a greater credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy.