prisonment

noun

prisonment

noun

UK /ˈpɹɪzənmənt/

Etymology Partly from prison + -ment, partly shortened from imprisonment.

1

Archaic Imprisonment.

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:

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