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Webster 1913 Edition
Confinement
Con-fine′ment
,Noun.
1.
Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.
The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under
confinement
when the sight is pent up. Addison.
2.
Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in.
Webster 1828 Edition
Confinement
CONFI'NEMENT
,Noun.
1.
Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty by force or other obstacle or necessity; as the confinement of a debtor or criminal to a prison, or of troops to a besieged town.2.
Voluntary restraint; seclusion; as the confinement of a man to his house, or to his studies.3.
Voluntary restraint in action or practice; as confinement to a particular diet.4.
Restraint from going abroad by sickness, particularly by child-birth.