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Definition of Confiner
1. n. One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
2. n. One who lives on confines, or near the border of a country; a borderer; a near neighbor.
Definition of Confiner
1. Noun. A person who lives on or within the confines; an inhabitant ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Confiner
1. one that confines [n -S] - See also: confines
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confiner
Literary usage of Confiner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"... but with its accent changed, being now on the first syllable, confine. See Todd.
confiner was generally accented on the second syllable, but not always. ..."
2. Boyer's French Dictionary: Comprising All the Improvements of the Latest by Abel Boyer (1849)
"confiner ks ordres I quelqu'ws, to admit one into orders. ... confiner v r.
to confine one's s&F, shut one's self up - COFFINS, ken-fin, a. in. ..."
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