incagement

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noun

Confinement in, or as if in, a cage.

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Meanings

nounincagement (uncountable)
  1. obsoleterareuncountableConfinement in, or as if in, a cage.

    I […]demaund, whether your worship since your incagement[…] haue not had a desire to make greater or lesse water

    1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC

Origin

From incage + -ment.

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APA

incagement. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incagement

MLA

“incagement.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incagement. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “incagement,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incagement.

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