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/dɪtˈɛnʃən/ Listen

noun

Detention n.

The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding.

The state of being detained (stopped or hindered); delay from necessity.

Confinement; restraint; custody. "The archduke Philip... found himself in a sort of honorable detention at Henry's court."

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Etymology of 'Detention'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Detention" Quotes from Famous Books

... and before the end of the year thirty-one had suffered the terrible punishment reserved for traitors, merely because they refused to conform. The prisons were so full of recusants that new houses were opened for their detention. The government reaped a rich harvest by the heavy fines inflicted on the wealthy Catholics and took pains, besides, to annoy them at every turn by domiciliary visits in search of concealed priests. Yet the ...

— History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance • Rev. James MacCaffrey

... and they routinely engage in sectarian violence, including the unnecessary detention, torture, and targeted execution of Sunni Arab civilians. The police are organized under the Ministry of the Interior, which is confronted by corruption and militia infiltration and lacks control over police in ...

— The Iraq Study Group Report • United States Institute for Peace

... on the exchange more useful than myself, and the five sages have often profited by the advice I have given them. My detention is a curious incident, which, perchance, will be ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... an armed sentinel who sat upon a straw mattress in the doorway, and another who patrolled the narrow hall which led to the street. That the prisoner was not placed in one of the cells in the floor below may have been owing to the fact that the law recognized his detention as only temporary, and while providing the two guards as a preventive against the egress of crime within, discreetly removed all unnecessary and provoking obstacles to the ingress of ...

— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte

... two privies, in the rear of the school-house, separated by a high close fence, one for the boys and the other for the girls. For want of these indispensable appendages of civilization, the delicacy of children is frequently offended, and their morals corrupted. Nay, more, the unnatural detention of the faeces, when nature calls for an evacuation, is frequently the foundation for chronic diseases, and the principal cause of permanent ill health, resulting not unfrequently in premature death. The accommodations in this respect provided by a district in a country village ...

— Popular Education - For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes • Ira Mayhew

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