Incarceration Definition

noun

The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.

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Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.

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A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

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Noun

Singular:
incarceration
Plural:
incarcerations

Origin of Incarceration

  • From Old French incarceration, from Medieval Latin incarceratio

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Incarceration Sentence Examples

  • Incarceration occurs only rarely after eight years of age.

  • Polybius was arrested with 1000 of the principal Achaeans, but, while his companions were condemned to a tedious incarceration in the country towns of Italy, he obtained permission to reside in Rome.

  • After years of incarceration the outside had become the panacea to all my ills.

  • This sentence, after a month's incarceration, was also commuted.

  • Many POWs did not survive their imprisonment or emerged from incarceration in a terribly emaciated state.

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Words Ending With

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