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Imprisonment

noun

Putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment.

The state of being imprisoned. Synonyms: captivity, immurement, incarceration. "The imprisonment of captured soldiers" , "His ignominious incarceration in the local jail" , "He practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon"

The act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison). Synonym: internment.

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"Imprisonment" Quotes from Famous Books

... some months later, he was accordingly arrested, and the evidence supplied by the Minoan formula was accepted by the Candia Tribunal as a crowning proof of his guilt. Aristides—"the Unjust"—was thus condemned to three months' imprisonment.' Few criminals attain to the dignity of being convicted on ...

— The Sea-Kings of Crete • James Baikie

... now and then by enforced absence, like that in Madrid as minister, but enlivened by many welcome guests. Perhaps the most notorious of these was a young Frenchman, a "somewhat quiet guest," who, after several months' imprisonment on board a French man-of-war, was set on shore at Norfolk, and spent a couple of months in New York and its vicinity, in 1837. This visit was vividly recalled by Irving in a letter to his sister, Mrs. Storrow, who was ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... straightway, every district and county were at the mercy of a petty local provost. No man of Southern sympathies could stand for office. Courts in session were broken up with the bayonet. Civil authority was overthrown. Destruction of property, indemnity assessments on innocent men, arrests, imprisonment, and murder became of daily occurrence. Ministers were jailed and lately prisons had even been prepared for disloyal women. Major Buford, forced to stay at home on account of his rheumatism and the serious illness of Miss Lucy, had been sent to prison once and was now under ...

— The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come • John Fox

... transcendental folly simply paralyzed them. They knew that she was not the princess; and here, calmly and negligently, she was jeoparding their liberty as well as her own. Mad, mad! For imposture of this caliber was a crime, punishable by long imprisonment; and Italy always contrived to rake in a dozen or so accomplices. They were all lost indeed, unless they could escape and leave La Signorina alone to bear the ...

— The Lure of the Mask • Harold MacGrath

... accompanied by one of the officers of the man's company. When I got outside, I told the brigade chaplain that I was going to walk over to Army Headquarters and ask the Army Commander to have the death sentence commuted to imprisonment. ...

— The Great War As I Saw It • Frederick George Scott

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