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caitives

caitives is the plural of caitive.

Meaning of caitive

Noun

caitive (plural caitives)

  1. (obsolete) A captive.
    • What hard mishap him brought to such distresse,
      And made that caitives thrall, the thrall of wretchedness1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about caitives

What is caitives the plural of?
Caitives is the plural of caitive.

Words near caitives in the dictionary

  1. Caithness
  2. Caitican
  3. caitiff
  4. caitiffs
  5. caitive
  6. caitives
  7. Caitlin
  8. Caitlind
  9. Caitlins
  10. Caitlyn
  11. Caitlyns

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