incapacitation

plural incapacitations

1. countableuncountableThe act of incapacitating or state of being incapacitated; incapacity; disqualification.

   I dare not whisper to myself a pension on this side of absolute incapacitation and infirmity, till years have sucked me dry.

   1822, Charles Lamb, The Best Letters of Charles Lamb, LXVIII. To Wordsworth. March 20

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   The incapacitation of South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson has put all eyes in Washington on what is normally a little-noticed Senate vote now scheduled for Jan. 4.

   2006 December 14, Karen Tumulty, “Johnson's Illness Puts Control of the Senate in Doubt”, in Time

   1. countableuncountablegovernmentThe imprisonment of a would-be offender, which prevents them from offending.

      Order-maintenance proponents affirmatively promote youth curfews, anti-gang loitering ordinances, and order-maintenance crackdowns as milder alternatives to the theory of incapacitation and increased incarceration.

      2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order