Word Meanings - CONFINEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by

Additional info about word: CONFINEMENT

1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONFINEMENT)

• Bondage
• Servitude
• confinement
• imprisonment
• incarceration
• subjection
• serfdom
• thraldom
• captivity
• slavery
• Durance
• Confinement
• Imprisonment
• Restraint
• durance
• Thraldom
• vassalage
• bondage

Related words: (words related to CONFINEMENT)

• INCARCERATION
  1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. Glanvill. Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia. A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
• SUBJECTION
  1. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale. 2. The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government
• BONDAGE
  Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner. Syn. -- Thralldom; bond service; imprisonment. (more info) 1. The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty
• CAPTIVITY
  1. The state of being a captive or a prisoner. More celebrated in his captivity that in his greatest triumphs. Dryden. 2. A state of being under control; subjection of the will or affections; bondage. Sink in the soft captivity together. Addison.
• THRALDOM
  The condition of a thrall; slavery; bondage; state of servitude. Women are born to thraldom and penance And to be under man's governance. Chaucer. He shall rule, and she in thraldom live. Dryden.
• IMPRISONMENT
  The act of imprisoning, or the state of being imprisoned; confinement; restraint. His sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common
• CONFINEMENT
  1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by
• VASSALAGE
  1. The state of being a vassal, or feudatory. 2. Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery; as, the Greeks were held in vassalage by the Turks. 3. A territory held in vassalage. "The Countship of Foix, with six territorial vassalages."
• SLAVERY
  1. The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught! Sterne. I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this
• BONDAGER
  A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field.
• SERVITUDE
  A right whereby one thing is subject to another thing or person for use or convenience, contrary to the common right. Note: The object of a servitude is either to suffer something to be done by another, or to omit to do something, with respect to
• RESTRAINT
  1. The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, physical or mental. No man was altogether above the restrains of law, and no man altogether below
• DURANCE
  1. Continuance; duration. See Endurance. Of how short durance was this new-made state! Dryden. 2. Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak. "Durance vile." Burns. In durance, exile, Bedlam or the mint. Pope. A stout
• INSUBJECTION
  Want of subjection or obedience; a state of disobedience, as to government.
• PERDURANCE; PERDURATION
  Long continuance.
• VAGABONDAGE
  The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.
• RESUBJECTION
  A second subjection.
• REIMPRISONMENT
  The act of reimprisoning, or the state of being reimprisoned.
• UNRESTRAINT
  Freedom from restraint; freedom; liberty; license.
• INDURANCE
  See ENDURANCE
• ANTISLAVERY
  Opposed to slavery. -- n.
• PROSLAVERY
  Favoring slavery. -- n.