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confination

confination noun: the quality of being confined.

Noun

confination (uncountable)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) The quality of being confined.
    • Predisposed to consumption in no other way, only by confination of body; he was somewhat stooped over, and flat-chested; one side a little more flattened than the other[…]1857, The Southern Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences

Origin of confination

From confine + -ation.

Questions about confination

What does confination mean?
Confination means the quality of being confined.
What part of speech is confination?
Confination is a noun.

Words near confination in the dictionary

  1. configurers
  2. configures
  3. configuring
  4. confin'd
  5. confinable
  6. confination
  7. confine
  8. confine oneself
  9. confineable
  10. confined
  11. confined oneself

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