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Webster 1913 Edition


Confinement

Con-fine′ment

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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

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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.

Definition 2024


confinement

confinement

English

Noun

confinement (countable and uncountable, plural confinements)

  1. the act of confining or the state of being confined
  2. lying-in, time of giving birth
    • 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 1
      At the wakes time Morel was working badly, and Mrs. Morel was trying to save against her confinement.

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