imprisonment

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, especially as punishment for a crime.

   His sinews woxen weake and raw / Through long emprisonment and hard constraint.

2. 2
   noun

   the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)

3. 3
   noun

   putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment

4. 4
   noun

   the state of being imprisoned

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman emprisonement, from Old French emprisonnement. See imprison + -ment.