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Confinement   /kənfˈaɪnmənt/   Listen
Confinement

noun
1.
Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child.  Synonyms: childbed, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail.
2.
The act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them.
3.
The state of being confined.
4.
The act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary).  Synonym: restriction.



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"Confinement" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the parable of the rich man Lazarus. The rich sinner is represented as passing, at death, into a place of torment, and confinement, and as despairing of even a momentary enlargement. Other wise he would not have requested that Lazarus might be sent to warn his brethren who were then living on earth, but rather that he might have gone ...
— Sermons on Various Important Subjects • Andrew Lee

... convention immediately dissolved, the fire-bells began to ring, a crowd moved upon the commissioner's office, surged into it, and swept Jerry out of the hands of the officers. The authorities having rallied, re-arrested the fugitive, and put him in confinement and in irons. But in the evening the assailants returned to the assault, carried the jail by storm, rescued Jerry for good, and spirited him off safe and sound to Canada, thus bringing to nought the fugitive slave law, as well as the exhortations of Mr. ...
— Volume I • Andrew Dickson White

... his genial spirits gave way, his constitution and health fouled him, and after many months of incarceration he died of brain fever. But through it all he bore himself like a true son of the South. He never complained, nor was his proud spirit broken by imprisonment, but it chafed under confinement and forced obedience to prison rule and discipline. The Confederacy lost no more patriotic, more self-sacrificing soldier than Lieutenant ...
— History of Kershaw's Brigade • D. Augustus Dickert

... mother, and the necessary confinement and bodily depression caused by it, I doubt not deepened his native thoughtful turn, and his tendency to meditative melancholy, as a condition under which he viewed all things, and quickened and intensified his sense of the suffering of ...
— Spare Hours • John Brown

... we ever should, had it not been for Quimby," said Miss Archer, glancing curiously around the office. "I believe I never was in a telegraph office before. Don't you find the confinement rather irksome?" ...
— Wired Love - A Romance of Dots and Dashes • Ella Cheever Thayer


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