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con·fin·er

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Wiktionary

  1. confinernoun

    A person who lives on or within the confines; an inhabitant

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Confinernoun

    Etymology: from confine.

    The senate hath stirr’d up the confiners. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.

    Happy confiners you of other lands,
    That shift your soil. Samuel Daniel, Civil War.

    Though gladness and grief be opposite in nature, yet they are such neighbours and confiners in art, that the least touch of a pencil will translate a crying into a laughing face. Henry Wotton.

    The participles or confiners between plants and living creatures, are such as have no local motion; such as oysters. Francis Bacon.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Confinernoun

    one who, or that which, limits or restrains

  2. Confinernoun

    one who lives on confines, or near the border of a country; a borderer; a near neighbor

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of confiner in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of confiner in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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