Synonyms:
imprisonment
Meaning: putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
Usage examples
And this room's secluded silence was eloquent of imprisonment!
"I'm sure I'm not--and so I don't believe in imprisonment except for the insane."
Even a peaceful detention was not to our minds, and when we named it imprisonment it looked even worse.
The other kind of torment is gross--such as penalties, imprisonment, beating, expulsion and banishment.
From this imprisonment the wicked old man was never freed. Thus did he meet with punishment at last for all his evil doings.
This Epistle of St. Peter was written, we believe, to comfort God's people under the heavy trial of Paul's second imprisonment.
But being weak with imprisonment, she soon grew weary, and, sitting down upon the edge of a little wood, took the box upon her lap.
They were desperate men, peculiarly interesting to him, and he had watched their faces furtively in the early period of his imprisonment.
They were facing arrest and imprisonment, humiliation and disgrace--perhaps ruin and starvation. Only in this way could they reach the ears of the people.
The narrow confines of the prison cell seem to suit the 'sonnet's scanty plot of ground,' and an unjust imprisonment for a noble cause strengthens as well as deepens the nature.