Captivity vs Imprisonment - What's the difference?
captivity | imprisonment |
The state of being captive.
(obsolete) A group of people/beings captive.
The state or period of being imprisoned, confined, or enslaved.
A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.
* Spenser
* Blackstone
* (Sir Walter Raleigh)
As nouns the difference between captivity and imprisonment
is that captivity is the state of being captive while imprisonment is a confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.captivity
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(captivities)See also
* captive * captorimprisonment
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Alternative forms
* emprisonment (obsolete)Noun
- His sinews waxen weak and raw / Through long imprisonment and hard constraint.
- Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment , whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by forcibly detaining one in the public streets.
- Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments , tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings