| 释义 |
▪ I. prisoning, vbl. n. Now rare.|ˈprɪz(ə)nɪŋ|
[f. prison v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb prison; imprisonment, confinement.
a1300Cursor M. 21259 Siþen efter prisuning, His saul he yeld to heuen king. c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 376 Boþe þes two prisounyngis..in Moises tyme and Jeremyes. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. xvii. 65 b, I speake not of prysonninges, treasons, robberies, open violence. 1907Dublin Rev. Jan. 30 Feet..Too wayward for the straight path's prisoning.
▪ II. ˈprisoning, ppl. a.
[f. prison v. + -ing2.]
That prisons or imprisons; imprisoning, confining. Usually fig.
1652Benlowes Theoph. i. i, Souls..Enfranchis'd from their pris'ning clay. 1868Nettleship Browning 243 Spring, which has freed the mountain from its prisoning breastplate of snow. a1892J. Hyslop in Pall Mall G. 26 Apr. (1892) 6/1 My soul..When that has passed beyond life's prisoning bars. |