containmentn.

1619 T. Milles tr. P. Mexia et al. Αρχαιο-πλουτος x. vii. 935/2 Let vs now see, if there be not as good meanes of vertuous containment, as well in the dayes of peace as of warre.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. ix. §9 A vast summ enough to shatter the conteinment of a rich mans estate.

1879 G. Meredith Egoist II. ii. 40 Revelry in sobriety, containment in exultation.

1956 Wall St. Jrnl. 18 Oct. 12/4 The explosion breaks the steel containment vessel.

1958 New Scientist 16 Jan. 14/2 The containment of the hot gas by a magnetic field is not a purely static phenomenon, like the containment of beer in a bottle.

1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Mar. 156/3 The Guayaquils, the Shirians and others who helped him to move about this forest are for him men who are contained by it. It was his pleasure to..find out..what that containment might mean.

1947 Partisan Rev. 14 239 British policy under Chamberlain presents a model of how not to undertake a policy of containment.

1947 Partisan Rev. 14 241 A program of containment requires a ring of stable and satisfied countries around Russia.

1952 Ann. Reg. 1951 178 A positive policy of rearmament, ‘containment’, and American leadership.

1952 Ann. Reg. 1951 184 The psychological strain and inconclusiveness which the ‘containment’ policy involved.

1955 M. Beloff Foreign Policy & Democratic Process 29 A more vigorous attempt to communicate with the captive peoples of Europe appears to have been what was meant by the distinction between ‘containment’ and ‘liberation’ which the change of administration in Washington at the beginning of 1953 was expected to bring about.