imprisonment
/ɪmˈpɹɪzn̩.mənt/ noun B2- A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, especially as punishment for a crime.
Plural imprisonments
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Anne smiled again, bravely facing the long years of solitary imprisonment before her.
But Beppo was condemned to a year’s imprisonment, and in the meanwhile his six busts were scattered over London.
As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man.
“The order of imprisonment came from high authority, and the order for his liberation must proceed from the same source; and, as Napoleon has scarcely been reinstated a fortnight, the letters have not yet been forwarded.”
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