Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Confinement in a prison; imprisonment.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Imprisonment.

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  • noun obsolete imprisonment

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Examples

  • He also ran away from justice for doing so he should be sentence to life in prisonment. rich

    Evening Buzz: Fugitive Filmmaker Arrested, Fighting Back 2009

  • I'm a man that is very fustrated with the way things are going and I feel some one needs to take a stand about in justice that's going on from false rape to false in prisonment also I want people to know that I belive in equal rights for all of us (more ...)

    WHY!! 2008

  • _Grinuile_ would neuer yeild, Able his power stoode like vnnumbred swarmes, Yet daring not on stricter tearmes to build, He offers all what may alay their harmes Safetie of liues, nor any thrall to weild, Free from the Gallie, prisonment, or paine, And safe returne vnto their soyle againe

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Balan said, I little weened to have met with you at this sudden adventure; I am right glad of your deliverance out of your dolorous prisonment, for a man told me, in the castle of Four Stones, that ye were delivered, and that man had seen you in the court of King

    Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

  • It is indeed an impressive contribution to the history of those times in the Philippines and most informative on the life and culture of the Philippine people as delineated in your detailed letters to Yvonne before the catastrophe and your detailed experience portrayed during the six months defense against hopeless odds and the three years of prisonment to liberation.

    Bataan Diary Reviews 1999

  • As I did so I slipped within my bosom the roll of closely written pages containing these annals of my prisonment.

    Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine Annie T. Colcock

  • Lay not these words aside for a moment's phantasy, but lift up thine eyes upon the Horror in this land; -- the maiming and mocking and murdering of my people, and the prisonment of their souls.

    The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel 1915

  • Then Balan said, I little weened to have met with you at this sudden adventure; I am right glad of your deliverance out of your dolorous prisonment, for a man told me, in the castle of Four Stones, that ye were delivered, and that man had seen you in the court of King Arthur, and therefore I came hither into this country, for here I supposed to find you.

    Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1 1903

  • William's guest and friend, Harold of England; and while the meal went on many questions were asked as to the shipwreck and prisonment of the earl, and the liveliest indignation was expressed at the conduct of Conrad of Ponthieu.

    Wulf the Saxon A Story of the Norman Conquest 1867

  • She will tell us of her 'prisonment in the _Counter_, and how _Father_ brought the little shell for to comfort her, and at after how he fetched her out, and rode away with her and had a care of her, when as she was let forth: but even in that there seems me like as there should be a gap, which she never filleth up.

    Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall Emily Sarah Holt 1864

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