INCARCERATION
captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurement
(noun) the state of being imprisoned; “he was held in captivity until he died”; “the imprisonment of captured soldiers”; “his ignominious incarceration in the local jail”; “he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
incarceration (countable and uncountable, plural incarcerations)
The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
(surgery, dated) strangulation, as in hernia.
A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
Source: Wiktionary
In*car`cer*a"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. incarcération.]
1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. Glanvill.
2. (Med.) (a) Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia. (b) A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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