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Webster 1913 Edition


Prisonment

Pris′on-ment

,
Noun.
Imprisonment.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition


Prisonment

PRIS'ONMENT

,
Noun.
Confinement in a prison; imprisonment.
[The latter is commonly used.]

Definition 2024


prisonment

prisonment

English

Noun

prisonment (countable and uncountable, plural prisonments)

  1. (now rare) Imprisonment. [from 15th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.12:
      Yet will I never of my love repent, / But joy that for his sake I suffer prisonment.