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imprisonment|ɪmˈprɪz(ə)nmənt|
Forms: see imprison v.
[ME. en-, emprisonement, a. AF. enprisounement (Britton), OF. emprisonnement (13th c.), f. emprisonner to imprison + -ment.]
The action of imprisoning, or fact or condition of being imprisoned; detention in a prison or place of confinement; close or irksome confinement; ‘forcible restraint within bounds’; incarceration.
α [1292Britton i. ii. §11 Sur peyne de enprisounement et de greef raunsoun.] 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 46 On payne of enprysonment & puttyng in stokkez. 1389in Eng. Gilds (1870) 5 He sha[l] haue xiiij d. duryng hys enpresonement, euery wyk. c1440Jacob's Well (E.E.T.S.) 93 In fals enprisonement, or fals qwest, or false dome. 1590H. Barrow in Greenwood Collect. Sclaund. Art. D ij b, I..haue euer since bene kept in most streight emprisonment.
β1415Proclam. in York Myst. Introd. 34 Of payne of forfaiture of yaire wapen and inprisonment of yaire bodys. 1467in Eng. Gilds (1870) 388 Inprisonment of hur bodyes at the kyngez wylle. 1513More Rich. III, Wks. 52/1 For they would remembre their imprisonment. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxviii. 164 Imprisonment, is when a man is by publique Authority deprived of liberty. 1780Burke Sp. Bristol previous to Elect. Wks. III. 389 It is but six or seven years since a clergyman of the name of Malony..was condemned to perpetual imprisonment for exercising the functions of his Religion. 1817W. Selwyn Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 851 An action for false imprisonment was brought by a native and inhabitant of Minorca..against the governor of the island.
b. transf. and fig. See imprison v. 2.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 226 Into the slavishe imprisonment of vices most detestable: yea, into that bondage it bringeth them. c1614Sir W. Mure Dido & æneas i. 211 At such impresonement they oft, repining, Lowd bellowing all break out. 1670Clarendon Contempl. Ps. in Tracts (1727) 611 No imprisonment so unworthy, as to be inclosed by our servants, by our own narrow and sordid affections. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. xviii. 187 The manly fortitude with which they bore up during this painful imprisonment. |