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Webster 1913 Edition

Prisonment

Pris′on-ment

,

Noun.

Imprisonment.

[Obs.]

Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Prisonment

PRIS'ONMENT

,

Noun.

Confinement in a prison; imprisonment.

[The latter is commonly used.]

Definition 2025

prisonment

prisonment

English

Noun

prisonment ‎(countable and uncountable, plural prisonments)

(now rare) Imprisonment. [from 15th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.12:
  Yet will I never of my love repent, / But joy that for his sake I suffer prisonment.