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/ɪmˈpɹɪzn̩.mənt/ · noun
A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, especially as punishment for a crime..
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.
Use imprison ment when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Imprison ment means A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, especially as punishment for a crime..
Common synonyms include incarceration, jaildom, captivity, internment.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
His sinews woxen weake and raw / Through long emprisonment and hard constraint.
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