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Vinony

imprisonment

noun

  1. restraint of a person's liberty by judicial or other detention
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɹɪzn̩.mənt/

noun

Etymology: From Anglo-Norman emprisonement, from Old French emprisonnement. See imprison + -ment.

  1. A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, especially as punishment for a crime.

    “His sinews woxen weake and raw / Through long emprisonment 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.”