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单词 imprisonment
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imprisonmentn.

/ɪmˈprɪz(ə)nmənt/
Forms: see imprison v.
Etymology: Middle English en- , emprisonement , < Anglo-Norman enprisounement (Britton), Old French emprisonnement (13th cent.), < emprisonner to imprison v. + -ment suffix.
a. The action of imprisoning, or fact or condition of being imprisoned; detention in a prison or place of confinement; close or irksome confinement; ‘forcible restraint within bounds’; incarceration.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun]
prisonOE
wardc1290
prisoning1344
keepingc1384
imprisonment1389
prisonment1422
jail1447
fasteningc1460
warding1497
firmancea1522
incarcerationc1540
imprisoningc1542
limbo1590
limbus?a1600
endurance1610
jailing1622
restraint1829
carceration1870
holiday1901
Paddy Doyle1919
bird1924
α.
1292 Britton i. ii. §11 Sur peyne de enprisounement et de greef raunsoun.]
1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 5 He sha[l] haue xiiij d. duryng hys enpresonement, euery wyk.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 46 On payne of enprysonment & puttyng in stokkez.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 93 In fals enprisonement, or fals qwest, or false dome.
1590 H. Barrow in H. Barrow & J. Greenwood Coll. Sclaunderous Articles D ij b I..haue euer since bene kept in most streight emprisonment.
β. 1415 Proclam. in York Myst. Introd. 34 Of payne of forfaiture of yaire wapen and inprisonment of yaire bodys.1467 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 388 Inprisonment of hur bodyes at the kyngez wylle.a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 52/1 For they would remembre their imprisonment.1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxviii. 164 Imprisonment, is when a man is by publique Authority deprived of liberty.1780 E. Burke Speech Bristol previous to Election 33 It is but six or seven years since a clergyman of the name of Malony..was condemned to perpetual imprisonment for exercising the functions of his religion.1817 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 851 An action for false imprisonment was brought by a native and inhabitant of Minorca..against the governor of the island.
b. transferred and figurative. See imprison v. 2.
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1576 A. Fleming tr. in Panoplie Epist. 226 Into the slavishe imprisonment of vices most detestable: yea, into that bondage it bringeth them.
c1614 W. Mure tr. Virgil Dido & Æneas i. in Wks. (1898) I. 211 At such impresonement they oft, repining, Lowd bellowing all break out.
1670 Earl of Clarendon Contempl. & Reflexions upon Psalms in Coll. Tracts (1727) 611 No imprisonment so unworthy, as to be inclosed by our servants, by our own narrow and sordid affections.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xviii. 187 The manly fortitude with which they bore up during this painful imprisonment.
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