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imprisonment

English

Alternative forms

  • emprisonment (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman emprisonement, from Old French emprisonnement. See imprison +? -ment.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?m?p??zn?.m?nt/

Noun

imprisonment (countable and uncountable, plural imprisonments)

  1. A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.
    • 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 […]

Synonyms

  • incarceration
  • jaildom

Derived terms

  • life imprisonment

Translations

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serfdom

English

Etymology

serf +? -dom

Noun

serfdom (usually uncountable, plural serfdoms)

  1. The state of being a serf.
  2. The feudal system that includes serfs.

Synonyms

  • serfage
  • serfhood

Translations

See also

  • servitude

Anagrams

  • deforms

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