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/ɪnkˌɑrsərˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Incarceration n.

The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.

(Med.)

(a)

Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.

(b)

A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

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Etymology of 'Incarceration'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Incarceration" Quotes from Famous Books

... very painful incarceration at her aunt's house. She had been wrathful and had stormed, swearing that she would be free to come and go as she pleased. Free to go, Mrs Pipkin told her that she was;—but not free to return if she went out otherwise than as she, ...

— The Way We Live Now • Anthony Trollope

... passed forty-eight hours in the Black Hole, has been just summoned, to his great dismay, to the Captain's quarters. Having about him all the squalor of his incarceration, he shrinks from making his appearance before one whose silent gaze even was a reproach. However, not being so mad yet as to disobey orders, he goes up to the officers' quarters immediately upon his release ...

— Charles Dickens as a Reader • Charles Kent

... the lot—and read by the light of a candle. How often he laid the book upon his knee and sighed, thinking of his beloved Aster, wondering how she had regarded his letter. In this way many a dreary week went on during which he grew pale and weak from pining and incarceration. ...

— The Four Canadian Highwaymen • Joseph Edmund Collins

... minor felony, I judge, from the brevity of your incarceration," replied the Governor, emptying the coffee pot into Archie's cup. "I have never been in jail and to the best of my knowledge I have never been indicted; or if I have the sheriff has never caught up with me! My heart bleeds nevertheless for ...

— Blacksheep! Blacksheep! • Meredith Nicholson

... learning and discussing, drawing men towards him by the magnetism of a noble personality, and preaching his new gospel with perilous audacity. His papers were seized at Bologna; and at Rome the Holy Inquisition condemned him to perpetual incarceration on the ground that he derived his science from the devil, that he had written the book 'De tribus Impostoribus,' that he was a follower of Democritus, and that his opposition to Aristotle savoured ...

— Sonnets • Michael Angelo Buonarroti & Tommaso Campanella

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