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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of confining or the state of being confined.
- noun Lying-in.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being confined; restraint within limits; any restraint of liberty by force or other obstacle or necessity; hence, imprisonment.
- noun Restraint from going abroad by sickness, specifically by childbirth; the lying-in of a woman: as, her approaching confinement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.
- noun Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the act of
confining or the state of beingconfined - noun
lying-in
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)
- noun concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
- noun the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
- noun the state of being confined
Etymologies
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Examples
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In fact, according to the terms of his plea deal, Khadr will serve only eight more years in confinement -- one in Gitmo's Camp 5, and seven more in Canada, provided Canada accepts the United States 'request to transfer him a year from now.
Daphne Eviatar: The Curtain Closes on a Show Trial at Guantanamo Bay Daphne Eviatar 2010
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Ghailani was apparently forced to divulge Abebe's identity while in confinement with terrorists linked to the September 11, 2001 attacks.
US Constitutional Protection Given to Foreign Terror Suspect 2010
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Why don't we do something about the big white-person threat by rounding up white people who seem suspicious and keeping them in confinement?
The Smoot-Hawley Fence, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The only positive aspect of solitary confinement is that it gives you time to think.
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One of the major reasons for its confinement is the challenge of teaching how to live -- or, as my experience in CPE would suggest, supporting and challenging people as they learn it themselves.
Joshua Stanton: Pastoral Care: Crucial Learning We Often Overlook Joshua Stanton 2010
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One of the major reasons for its confinement is the challenge of teaching how to live -- or, as my experience in CPE would suggest, supporting and challenging people as they learn it themselves.
Joshua Stanton: Pastoral Care: Crucial Learning We Often Overlook Joshua Stanton 2010
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By doing so, DDWS has been able to save people even before they were subjected to long term confinement and forced labor.
Free The Slaves: Bihar, India: Signs of Positive Change in Anti-Slavery Policy Free The Slaves 2011
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By doing so, DDWS has been able to save people even before they were subjected to long term confinement and forced labor.
Free The Slaves: Bihar, India: Signs of Positive Change in Anti-Slavery Policy Free The Slaves 2011
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One of the major reasons for its confinement is the challenge of teaching how to live -- or, as my experience in CPE would suggest, supporting and challenging people as they learn it themselves.
Joshua Stanton: Pastoral Care: Crucial Learning We Often Overlook Joshua Stanton 2010
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The petitioner has to demonstrate that his/her current confinement is contrary to law.
Related Words
synonyms (87)
Words with the same meaning
- accouchement
- beleaguerment
- besetment
- birth
- birth throes
- birthing
- blessed event
- blockade
- blockading
- boundary
- bounds
- childbearing
- childbed
- childbirth
- circumscription
- closeness
- constraint
- continence
- cordoning
- cramp
- cramping
- crowdedness
- delivery
- discipline
- dismemberment
- enclosure
- envelopment
- estrapade
- galleys
- genesis
- giving birth
- hair
- hairbreadth
- hairsbreadth
- hard labor
- hatching
- having a baby
- immurement
- impalement
- imprisonment
- incapaciousness
- incarceration
- inclusion
- incommodiousness
- jailing
- keelhauling
- labor
- limit
- limitation
- lying-in
- martyrdom
- moderation
- multiparity
- narrow gauge
- narrowness
- nascency
- nativity
- nearness
- parturition
- penal servitude
- picketing
- prescription
- proscription
- qualification
- quarantine
- railriding
- restrain
- restraint
- restrictedness
- restriction
- rock pile
- seclusion
- siege
- slenderness
- stint
- straitness
- strappado
- strictness
- tar-and-feathering
- the Nativity
- the gantlet
- the stork
- tight squeeze
- tightness
- torment
- torture
- travail
treeseed commented on the word confinement
19th century Victorian era term for pregnancy
February 15, 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word confinement
Followed by an upsitting.
September 9, 2010