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prisonment

UK/ˈpɹɪzənmənt/

prisonment noun: imprisonment.

Noun

prisonment (countable and uncountable, plural prisonments)

  1. (archaic) Imprisonment.
    • Yet will I never of my love repent, / But joy that for his sake I suffer prisonment.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of prisonment

pluralprisonments

Origin of prisonment

Partly from prison + -ment, partly shortened from imprisonment.

Questions about prisonment

What does prisonment mean?
Prisonment means imprisonment.
What part of speech is prisonment?
Prisonment is a noun.
How do you pronounce prisonment?
Prisonment is pronounced /ˈpɹɪzənmənt/ (UK).
What is the plural of prisonment?
The plural of prisonment is prisonments.

Words near prisonment in the dictionary

  1. prisonized
  2. prisonizes
  3. prisonizing
  4. prisonless
  5. prisonlike
  6. prisonment
  7. prisonments
  8. prisonous
  9. prisons
  10. prisonsful
  11. prisonwear

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