imprisonment

substantivoatestado nos diálogos

Reino Unido//ɪmˈpɹɪzn̩.mənt//

A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, especially as punishment for a crime.

substantivo

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A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, especially as punishment for a crime.
His sinews woxen weake and raw / Through long emprisonment and hard constraint.
Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by forcibly detaining one in the public streets.
Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]
Human rights organisations say many experience imprisonment and beatings along the way.

Etimologia

From Anglo-Norman emprisonement, from Old French emprisonnement. See imprison + -ment.

Formas

plural: imprisonments

impression · The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one…impressive · Making, or tending to make, a positive impression; having…imprint · An impression; the mark left behind by printing something or…

imprisonment · A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, especially as punishment for a crime.

improper · Unsuitable to needs or circumstances; inappropriate; inapt.improve · To make (something) better; to increase the value or…improved · That has been made better; enhanced.

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