Alternativa stavningar
- (föråldrada ord) emprisonment
Synonymer
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Definitioner
Substantiv
- A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.
Exempel
- His sinews waxen weak and raw / Through long imprisonment and hard constraint.
- Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by forcibly detaining one in the public streets.
- Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings [...] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves [...]
Böjningsformer
| Plural | imprisonments |