| 单词 | prisonment |
| 释义 | ˈprisonment Now rare.
[f. prison v. + -ment; cf. imprisonment and obs. F. prisonnement (? 16th c. in Godef.).]
The action of imprisoning, or fact or condition of being imprisoned; detention in a prison or place of confinement; = imprisonment. Also fig.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love ii. xi. (Skeat) I. 54 For prisonment or any other disese, [if] he take it paciently, discomfiteth he not, the tiraunte ouer his soule no power maie haue. 1468Maldon, Essex, Liber B. lf. 12 b, Nat..wythout licence of the Baillies, vpon xl. dayes prisonement and a grete fyn. 1526Tindale 2 Cor. vi. 5 In anguysshe, in strypes, in presonment, in stryfe, in labour. 1607J. Carpenter Plaine Mans Plough 188 Mockings, scourgings, bands, prisonments, stonings. 1641J. Trappe Theol. Theol. vii. 286 The taking away of..thy good Ministers by exile, prisonment, and death. 1893Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 17 Aug., The transformation from prisonment to thrilling liberty is so inexpressibly complete.
b. An imprisoning or confining condition.
1900Crockett Black Douglas 6 If he may not sometimes..lay aside his heavy prisonment of armour and don such a suit as this. |
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