Confiner
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Confiner is a noun meaning One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
Meaning
One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
More Meanings
- A person who lives on the confines, boundary or edge; a neighbour.
- A person who lives within the confines; an inhabitant.
- A prisoner incarcerated for a set term.
Example Sentences
The narrow adhesive strips […] are then applied spirally about the leg, as confiners.
[…] as he attended him through the streets, the common people, and even women, uttered loud exclamations of abuse against him, calling him the murderer of syeds, and confiner of Chaund Sultana.
[…] though Gladnesse, and Griefe, be opposites in Nature; yet they are such Neighbours and Confiners in Arte, that the least touch of a Pensill, will translate a Crying, into a Laughing Face […]
1697, Thomas d’Urfey, The Intrigues of Versailles, London: F. Saunders et al., Act IV, Scene 2, p. , […] darkness is naturally a confiner of fancy; and my Muse has taught me just as people do Starlings: I sing always best when I’ve least light […]
Word Forms
- confiners
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include confinee, constraining, fetter, constrictor, trammeler, cramp.
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