Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who imprisons another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who imprisons.
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- noun One who
imprisons .
Etymologies
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Examples
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His dissertation addressed the 'imprisoner dilemma'.
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His dissertation addressed the 'imprisoner dilemma'.
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Aside being imprisoner for something she didn't even write about, while Robert Novak, the first journalist to oust Valerie Plame as a CIA agent, walks around free, there is the issue of why the prosecutor knows about her in the first place.
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Where other contemporary writers have used nostalgia as a way to throw in a cheap gag or to pad out a novel, I would suggest that Lethem is the only literary figure brave enough to recognize its potential as an imprisoner.
Jonathan Lethem: Pop Culture Truthteller or Gimmicky Stylist? : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2005
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_Polia_ my mistres, the owner of all my skil, and imprisoner of my perfections.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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His implication was that Israel is the cruel imprisoner.
NY Post: News 2010
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