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emprisonment

emprisonment is the obsolete form of imprisonment.

Meaning of imprisonment

Noun

imprisonment (countable and uncountable, plural imprisonments)

  1. 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.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 2

Forms of emprisonment

pluralemprisonments

Origin of emprisonment

From emprison + -ment.

Questions about emprisonment

What is emprisonment the obsolete form of?
Emprisonment is the obsolete form of imprisonment.

Words near emprisonment in the dictionary

  1. emprises
  2. emprising
  3. emprison
  4. emprisoned
  5. emprisoning
  6. emprisonment
  7. emprisonments
  8. emprisons
  9. emprize
  10. emprizes
  11. emprostho-

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Adapted from Wiktionary: emprisonment (page history and authors); imprisonment (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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