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Confinement

Confinement Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Confinement? [n] the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them [n] the state of being confined; "he was held in confinement" [n] concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Confinement: childbed \| labor \| labour \| lying-in \| parturiency \| travail Related Terms \| Find terms related to Confinement: accouchement \| beleaguerment \| besetment \| birth \| birth throes \| birthing \| blessed event \| blockade \| blockading \| boundary \| bounds \| childbearing \| childbed \| childbirth \| circumscription \| closeness \| constraint \| continence \| cordoning \| cramp \| cramping \| crowdedness \| delivery \| discipline \| dismemberment \| enclosure \| envelopment \| estrapade \| galleys \| genesis \| giving birth \| hair \| hairbreadth \| hairsbreadth \| hard labor \| hatching \| having a baby \| immurement \| impalement \| imprisonment \| incapaciousness \| incarceration \| inclusion \| incommodiousness \| jailing \| keelhauling \| labor \| limit \| limitation \| martyrdom \| moderation \| multiparity \| narrow gauge \| narrowness \| nascency \| nativity \| nearness \| parturition \| penal servitude \| picketing \| prescription \| proscription \| qualification \| quarantine \| railriding \| restrain \| restraint \| restrictedness \| restriction \| rock pile \| siege \| slenderness \| stint \| straitness \| strappado \| strictness \| tar-and-feathering \| the gantlet \| the Nativity \| the stork \| tight squeeze \| tightness \| torment \| torture \| travail See Also \| asynclitism \| birth \| birthing \| captivity \| commitment \| committal \| consignment \| constraint \| custody \| detention \| effacement \| gestation \| giving birth \| hold \| house arrest \| immurement \| imprisonment \| imprisonment \| incarceration \| internment \| obliquity \| parturition \| pregnancy \| premature labor \| premature labour \| restraint \| restraint \| solitary \| solitary confinement \| subjection \| subjugation \| uterine contraction Confinement In Webster's Dictionary \Con*fine"ment\, n. 1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. --Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in.

Confinement Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Confinement?

[n] the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
[n] the state of being confined; "he was held in confinement"
[n] concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"

Confinement In Webster's Dictionary

\Con*fine"ment\, n.
1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of
   liberty; seclusion.

         The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself
         under confinement when the sight is pent up.
                                               --Addison.

2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by
   childbirth; lying-in.

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