incommunication

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noun In Spanish law, the state of a prisoner who, by order of a judge, is not permitted to see or hold communication with any one during his confinement or until further order.

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That's what I had hoped would happen when my latest ex and I hung out a couple times after 2 months of incommunication.

Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2009
From Rome we hear that the impetus towards a Rome-SSPX understanding which was generated by the Pope's January "re-incommunication" of the four SSPX bishops, was seriously slowed down by the distrust generated by the media uproar of January-February, which is what that uproar was designed to achieve.

The Lair of the Catholic Cavemen PreVat2 2009
It is to be hoped that the alarm so methodically excited by scientific and magisterial authority in the countries to the west of us [!!] will cease, after the ample experience which we have dearly purchased (with some popular tumults), and that the system of incommunication will be at once done away with by all enlightened governments, after what has passed among us. "

Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or through the medium of the atmosphere; and that all restrictions, by cordons and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the community. William Fergusson 1809