caitive
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editcaitive (plural caitives)
- (obsolete) A captive.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- What hard mishap him brought to such distresse,
And made that caitives thrall, the thrall of wretchedness
- 1567, Ovid, “(please specify the book number or chapter)”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC:
- When whelmed in their wicked worke those cursed Caitives lay
The Earth their mother tooke their bloud yet warme and (as they say)
Did give it life.
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editcaitive oblique singular, f (oblique plural caitives, nominative singular caitive, nominative plural caitives)
- female equivalent of caitif
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