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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Hostageness

Can I use the word hostageness (the experience of being held captive against your will)? Or is this a Dutch fabrication?
  

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Hi, It's not a standard English word. If I heard it, I wouldn't know what it meant. Maybe your meaning?

— Clive

  • Hi, It's not a standard English word.
  • If I heard it, I wouldn't know what it meant.
  • Maybe your meaning?
  • Maybe the quality of being a good or satisfactory hostage?
  • Maybe .
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Hi,

It's not a standard English word.

If I heard it, I wouldn't know what it meant.

Maybe your meaning?

Maybe the quality of being a good or satisfactory hostage?


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Hi

In English, I think the word is "hostageship". My paper dictionary doesn't have it but, if you google it, there are one or two usages that look reputable

Regards, Dave
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Hi Dave,

I took just a quick look for 'hostageship' and coudn't find anything reasonable. Can you?

Maybe we should try 'hostageivity'?
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Hi

What search engine are you using?

I find a paper from Cornell (2009) about women who were taken hostage in medieval times. Part of the subititle is "Women, Hostageship, Captivity"

And then there is a paper from Brandeis (2005) where chapter 1 is entitled "Meaning and Purpose of Hostageship in the Greco-Roman World"

And then there's a paper from the Universit
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Hi,

Hmmm. Academics are notorious for inventing their own jargon. Makes their work sound more important.
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