imprisonment

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ɪmˈpɹɪzn̩.mənt/

Noun

imprisonment

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

   • His sinews waxen weak and raw / Through long imprisonment 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 […]

Synonyms

• incarceration
• jaildom

Translations

• French: emprisonnement
• German: Gefangenschaft, Haft
• Italian: detenzione, incarcerazione
• Portuguese: aprisionamento
• Russian: (тюремный
• Spanish: encarcelamiento, encarcelación, aprisionamiento, cautiverio, cautividad

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