imprisonment
nounEtymology
From Anglo-Norman emprisonement, from Old French emprisonnement. See imprison + -ment.
- derived from emprisonnement
- derived from emprisonement
Definitions
A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, especially as punishment for a…
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.
- 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 […]
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at imprisonment. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at imprisonment. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at imprisonment
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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