Imprison ment

Im`pris´on ment

The act of imprisoning, or the state of being imprisoned; confinement; restraint.

His sinews waxen weak and raw
Through long imprisonment and hard constraint.

- Spenser.

Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by foreibly detaining one in the public streets.

- Blackstone.

False imprisonment
(Law) See under False.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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