Imprisonment

Definitions

A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, especially as punishment for a crime.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“His sinews woxen weake and raw / Through long emprisonment 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 […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]”

“Human rights organisations say⟳ many experience⟳ imprisonment and beatings along the way.”

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