Definitions for imprisonment
im·pris·on·ment

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. imprisonmentnoun

   putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment

2. captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurementnoun

   the state of being imprisoned

   "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon"

3. imprisonment, internmentnoun

   the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. imprisonmentnoun

   A confinement in a place, especially a prison.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Imprisonmentnoun

   Confinement; clausure; state of being shut in prison. It may be written emprisonment.

   Etymology: emprisonnement, Fr. from imprison.

   His sinews waxen weak and raw,
   Through long imprisonment and hard constraint. F. Queen.

   Which shall I first bewail,
   Thy bondage or lost sight,
   Thou art become, O worst imprisonment!
   The dungeon of thyself. John Milton, Agonistes.

   From retentive cage
   When sullen Philomel escapes, her notes
   She varies, and of past imprisonment
   Sweetly complains. Phillips.

   Count Serini, still close prisoner in this castle, lost his senses by his long imprisonment and afflictions. Addison.

   It is well if they don't fix the brand of heresy on the man who is leading them out of their long imprisonment, and looseing the fetters of their souls. Isaac Watts, Impr. of the Mind.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Imprisonment

   Imprisonment is the restraint of a person's liberty, for any cause whatsoever, whether by authority of the government, or by a person acting without such authority. In the latter case it is "false imprisonment". Imprisonment does not necessarily imply a place of confinement, with bolts and bars, but may be exercised by any use or display of force (such as placing one in handcuffs), lawfully or unlawfully, wherever displayed, even in the open street. People become prisoners, wherever they may be, by the mere word or touch of a duly authorized officer directed to that end. Usually, however, imprisonment is understood to imply an actual confinement in a jail or prison employed for the purpose according to the provisions of the law.Sometimes gender imbalances occur in imprisonment rates, with incarceration of males proportionately more likely than incarceration of females.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. imprisonment

   Officers may be sentenced to imprisonment by a general court-martial in any case where the court may have discretionary authority. General, garrison, and regimental courts-martial may sentence soldiers to imprisonment, solitary or otherwise, with or without hard labor, for various offenses enumerated in the Articles of War. A garrison or regimental court-martial, in awarding imprisonment, is limited to a period not exceeding thirty days. When a court awards solitary imprisonment as a punishment, it is necessary that the words “solitary confinement” should be expressed in the sentence. The legal imprisonment in the United States is confinement, solitary confinement, and confinement on bread and water; confinement on bread and water shall not extend over fourteen days at a time, with intervals between the periods of such confinement not less than such periods, and not exceeding eighty-four days in any one year.

Matched Categories

1. • Confinement
   • Law
   • Punishment

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'imprisonment' in Nouns Frequency: #2319

How to pronounce imprisonment?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say imprisonment in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of imprisonment in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of imprisonment in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of imprisonment in a Sentence

1. Martin Luther King Jr.:

   I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

2. De Niro:

   The individual who currently purports to lead America is not worthy of any tribute, unlessyou think of this impeachment and imprisonment as a sort of tribute -- and thats how you can make America great again.

3. Jalila Sayed:

   He was notified of the referring of his case regarding Jaw prison and the Yemen war to the High Criminal Court for trial, the first hearing will be on 12 July 2016. Nabeel may face up to 13 years of imprisonment if convicted in that case.

4. Mumin Abdullahi:

   Abdiweli Mohamed, the security head of the civil aviation, and Areys Hashi, who was the funder but absent, were sentenced to life imprisonment by the court, areys Hashi is a member of al Shabaab who funded the operation.

5. Thom Tillis:

   This pastor was in the United States after the coup and after Erdogan was rounding up people all across the country, does anybody really believe that he would have traveled back to a country that he felt like he could have been swept up into that? Samuel Brownback, US Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, talks to members of the media outside the prison complex Aliaga, Izmir province, western Turkey, where jailed pastor Andrew Craig Brunson appeared on his trial at a court inside the complex (AP) Meanwhile, the year and a half of imprisonment has taken a personal toll on Brunson and his family.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=imprisonment
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Imprisonment
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=imprisonment
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprisonment
5. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html