Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which confines.
- noun 2 (kon′ fī- or kon-fi′ nėr). [⟨ confine, v.i., + -er. Cf. confine, n, 4.] A borderer; one who lives on the confines or near the border of a country; a neighbor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
- noun obsolete One who lives on confines, or near the border of a country; a borderer; a near neighbor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who lives on or within the
confines ; aninhabitant
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On August 26, 1976, during countrywide disturbances, he was detained in Grahamstown in terms of security legislation, spending time in solitary confiner 24 under political restrictions which lasted until the end of that year.
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If there be any higher sort of reality -- the 'absolute,' for example -- that sort, by the confession of those who believe in it, is still less amenable to ordinary logic; it transcends logic and is therefore still less rational in the intellectualist sense, so it cannot help us to save our logic as an adequate definer and confiner of existence.
A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy William James 1876
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