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prisonments

prisonments is the plural of prisonment.

Meaning of prisonment

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

Questions about prisonments

What is prisonments the plural of?
Prisonments is the plural of prisonment.

Words near prisonments in the dictionary

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

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