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Word Meanings - PRISONER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who is confined in a prison. Piers Plowman. 2. A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a prisoner at the bar of a court. Bouvier. Prisoner of Hope thou art, --

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1. One who is confined in a prison. Piers Plowman. 2. A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a prisoner at the bar of a court. Bouvier. Prisoner of Hope thou art, -- look up and sing. Keble. Prisoner's base. See Base, n., 24.

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  • ACCUSATIVELY
    1. In an accusative manner. 2. In relation to the accusative case in grammar.
  • ACCUSTOMARILY
    Customarily.
  • ACCUSTOMEDNESS
    Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
  • ACCUSE
    Accusation. Shak.
  • BONDSMAN
    A surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for another. (more info) 1. A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman. Carnal, greedy people, without such a precept, would have no mercy upon their poor bondsmen. Derham.
  • SLAVEOCRACY
    See SLAVOCRACY
  • SLAVEHOLDING
    Holding persons in slavery.
  • VASSALESS
    A female vassal. Spenser.
  • ACCUSTOMABLE
    Habitual; customary; wonted. "Accustomable goodness." Latimer.
  • ACCUSANT
    An accuser. Bp. Hall.
  • ACCUSATIVAL
    Pertaining to the accusative case.
  • ACCUSER
    One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.
  • 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."
  • VASSAL
    Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile. The sun and every vassal star. Keble.
  • ACCUSINGLY
    In an accusing manner.
  • ACCUSATION
    1. The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense. We come not by the way of accusation To taint that honor every good tongue blesses. Shak. 2. That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or
  • ACCUSATIVE
    Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition.
  • DEFENDANT
    1. Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive. With men of courage and with means defendant. Shak. 2. Making defense.
  • 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
  • ACCUSEMENT
    Accusation. Chaucer.
  • REACCUSE
    To accuse again. Cheyne.
  • ENSLAVEMENT
    The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude. A fresh enslavement to their enemies. South.
  • DISACCUSTOM
    To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. Johnson.
  • ENSLAVEDNESS
    State of being enslaved.
  • REENSLAVE
    To enslave again.
  • PREACCUSATION
    Previous accusation.
  • ENVASSAL
    To make a vassal of.
  • SELF-ACCUSED
    Accused by one's self or by one's conscience. "Die self- accused." Cowper.

 

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