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imprisonments

imprisonments is the plural 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

Phrases with imprisonments

Questions about imprisonments

What is imprisonments the plural of?
Imprisonments is the plural of imprisonment.

Words near imprisonments in the dictionary

  1. imprisoneth
  2. imprisoning
  3. imprisonment
  4. imprisonment warrant
  5. imprisonment warrants
  6. imprisonments
  7. imprisons
  8. impro
  9. improbabilities
  10. improbability
  11. improbable

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