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