prisonment · noun — imprisonment.
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prisonment is pronounced /ˈpɹɪzənmənt/.
Etymology
Partly from prison + -ment, partly shortened from imprisonment.
noun
- Imprisonment.e.g.“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:
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