Definitions for: Confinement


[n] the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
[n] the state of being confined; "he was held in confinement"
[n] concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"



Webster (1913) Definition: Con*fine"ment, n.
1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of
liberty; seclusion.

The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself
under confinement when the sight is pent up.
--Addison.

2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by
childbirth; lying-in.

Synonyms: childbed, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail

See Also: asynclitism, birth, birthing, captivity, commitment, committal, consignment, constraint, custody, detention, effacement, gestation, giving birth, hold, house arrest, immurement, imprisonment, imprisonment, incarceration, internment, obliquity, parturition, pregnancy, premature labor, premature labour, restraint, restraint, solitary, solitary confinement, subjection, subjugation, uterine contraction

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