| 单词 | state prisoner |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstate prisoner state prisoner n. a person confined or imprisoned for political reasons (cf. prisoner of state n. at prisoner n.2 Phrases 3); a prisoner held in a state prison (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > political or prisoner of conscience state prisoner1677 prisoner of conscience1738 political prisoner1828 political1884 1677 Case Mr. Francis Jenkes 30 The keeper of the Gate-house not Kalendering any State prisoner..at the Sessions for Westminster, he might lye there all his life time without triall. 1757 Duke of Rutland Jrnl. 24 Aug. in Tour N. & S. Wales (1805) 160 The reason of this attention to the prisoners was, on account of the evidence which they had in their power to give against the state prisoners, and which, if ill-treated, they might possibly withhold. 1766 T. Smollett Trav. France & Italy II. 227 The isles Marguerites, where state-prisoners are confined. 1807 (title) Case of St. John Mason, who was confined as a state-prisoner, in Kilmainham. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxxv. 360 Who ever heard of a state prisoner escaping by a hickry-bark ladder? 1904 J. Conrad Nostromo i. vi. 41 Their neighbour..had suffered untold indignities as a state prisoner in the time of the tyrant Guzman Bento. 1990 Washington Post 6 Mar. a4/5 The court strips state prisoners of virtually any meaningful federal review of the constitutionality of their incarceration. < as lemmas |
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