confinement

noun

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  • singular : confinement
  • plural : confinements

Senses

  • restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion
  • 1922: We always passed the hours of our confinement on the bed, for the room was very small and the one window stared blankly at the window of an unused room in the Peggs' house, which blankly returned the stare.
    [Explorers of the Dawn]