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/ɪnkˌɑrsərˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Incarceration n.

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

(Med.)

(a)

Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.

(b)

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

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Etymology of 'Incarceration'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Incarceration" Quotes from Famous Books

... reward such of the officers of the prison as shall be kind to her during her incarceration," said Mrs. MacDonald meaningly. "And now I will trouble you to unlock the door and admit me for a few ...

— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

... the arrest and incarceration of Goodwife Nurse, Reverend Deodat Lawson, an eminent Boston divine, came to Salem village. All land travel at that time was on horseback. He lodged at the house of Nathaniel Ingersol near the home of the minister Mr. Parris. The appearance of a foreigner in the village was ...

— The Witch of Salem - or Credulity Run Mad • John R. Musick

... Rattler was amazed at the treatment he experienced at the hands of his new acquaintances on arriving, he had occasion to be very much more surprised at what occurred three hours after his incarceration. ...

— Martin Rattler • Robert Michael Ballantyne

... secure nearly every one of them. A knowledge of this fact has suggested to Mr Matthew Hill a plan for capturing the whole criminal class, and obliging them to give security for their good behaviour; failing which, they should suffer incarceration as notoriously dangerous and troublesome to society. A fear of trenching on the liberty of the subject may prevent this ingenious scheme of the Recorder of Birmingham from being carried into effect; but to something or other of the kind he proposes, society must come at last, if it wish to save ...

— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 419, New Series, January 10, 1852 • Various

... making way for disease, it frequently occurred a whole family, when confined with one infected member, speedily became stricken by plague, and consequently overtaken by death. It therefore happened that many attempts were made by those in health to escape incarceration. In some cases they bribed, and in others ill-treated the watchmen: one of whom was actually blown up by gunpowder in Coleman Street, that those he guarded might flee unmolested. Again, it chanced that strong men, rendered desperate when brought face to face with loathsome death, lowered themselves ...

— Royalty Restored - or, London under Charles II. • J. Fitzgerald Molloy

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