Confinement

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Confinement \Con*fine"ment\, n.
     1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of
        liberty; seclusion.
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              The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself


              under confinement when the sight is pent up.
                                                    --Addison.
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     2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by
        childbirth; lying-in.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  confinement
       n 1: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to
            the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
            [syn: {parturiency}, {labor}, {labour}, {lying-in}, {travail},
             {childbed}]
       2: the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining
          them
       3: the state of being confined; "he was held in confinement"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  85 Moby Thesaurus words for "confinement":
     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, martyrdom, moderation, multiparity, narrow gauge,
     narrowness, nascency, nativity, nearness, parturition,
     penal servitude, picketing, prescription, proscription,
     qualification, quarantine, railriding, restrain, restraint,
     restrictedness, restriction, rock pile, siege, slenderness, stint,
     straitness, strappado, strictness, tar-and-feathering,
     the Nativity, the gantlet, the stork, tight squeeze, tightness,
     torment, torture, travail