Imprisonment

Quick meaning: Imprisonment is a noun meaning A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, especially as punishment for a crime.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

His sinews woxen weake and raw / Through long emprisonment and hard constraint.

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

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 […]

Word Forms

• imprisonments

Synonyms for imprisonment

Depending on context, synonyms include incarceration, jaildom, captivity, internment, immurement, jailing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include jailing, incarceration, internment, captivity, immurement, gaol.

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