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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Im·pris·on ment n.  The act of imprisoning, or the state of being imprisoned; confinement; restraint.
 His sinews waxen weak and raw
 Through long imprisonment and hard constraint.   --Spenser.
    Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by foreibly detaining one in the public streets.   --Blackstone.
 False imprisonment. Law See under False.
 Syn: -- Incarceration; custody; confinement; durance; restraint.
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