Confinement
[kən'faɪnmənt]
Definition
(noun.) the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them.
(noun.) the state of being confined; 'he was held in confinement'.
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Definition
(n.) Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.
(n.) Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Restraint.[2]. Imprisonment, incarceration, captivity, duress, durance.
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Examples
- I passed but one day in confinement; in the evening I was liberated, as I was told, by the order of the Earl himself. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She is depressed, but this confinement perhaps adds to her depression. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- My beloved, so he wrote to me at last, my spirits and health fail me; they are worn out and exhausted, with this close confinement. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Is there anything you want that would lessen the hardship of this confinement? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The emperor of Lilliput, attended by several of the nobility, comes to see the author in his confinement. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- But first they resolved to sell the goods the ship, and then go to Madagascar for recruits, several among them having died since my confinement. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- She was kept in very close confinement, ma'am: people even for some years was not absolutely certain of her existence. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She looked very well, and fairer, as well as less fierce, than before her confinement. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- To be sitting long after dinner, was a confinement that he could not endure. Jane Austen. Emma.
- She was, at that time, within a few months of her confinement. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- My cheek had grown pale with study, and my person had become emaciated with confinement. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I have lain in prison for security, with the place of my confinement kept a secret, lest I should be torn out of it and felled by a hundred blows. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I would rather go to some other place of confinement if I can,' said Mr. Pickwick. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- During her confinement, many arguments had been urged to persuade my mother to refrain from attending upon her. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- But Dr. Squills and I were thinking that our amiable friend is not in such a state as renders confinement to her bed necessary. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He applied the principles of bacteriology to the treatment of puerperal fev er, which in 1864 had rendered fatal 310 cases out of 1350 confinements in the Maternité in Paris. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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