Meanings
nounprisonment (countable and uncountable, plural prisonments)
plural prisonments
- archaiccountableuncountableImprisonment.First known use 15th c.
Yet will I never of my love repent, / But joy that for his sake I suffer prisonment.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Origin
Partly from prison + -ment, partly shortened from imprisonment.
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prisonment. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prisonment
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“prisonment.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prisonment. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prisonment,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prisonment.
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