Definition of Imprisonments

1. Noun. (plural of imprisonment) ¹

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Definition of Imprisonments

1. imprisonment [n] - See also: imprisonment

Lexicographical Neighbors of Imprisonments

imprint
imprinted
imprinter
imprinters
imprintings
imprints
imprison
imprison'd
imprisonable
imprisoned
imprisoner
imprisoners
imprisoning
imprisonment
imprisonments (current term)
imprisons
impro
improbabilities
improbability
improbable
improbableness
improbably
improbation
improbations
improbities
improbity
improficiencies
improficiency
improfitable

Literary usage of Imprisonments

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by George Woodyatt Hastings (1858)
"Short imprisonments, as connected with the Criminal Justice Act (18 d 19 Viet. c. 126). By the Rev. J. FIELD, Chaplain of Reading Gaol. ..."

2. A Summary of the Law of Torts, Or, Wrongs Independent of Contract by Arthur Underhill, Hubert Stuart Moore (1900)
"The rules which apply to imprisonments by private persons, and those which apply to imprisonments by judges and other magistrates, are necessarily different ..."

3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1870)
"... imprisonments, searches, seizures, proceed- ¡т.^.ч. and acts, had been done under the previous 1 1 [ ress authority and direction of the General ..."

4. The Puritan Republic of the Massachusetts Bay in New England by Daniel Wait Howe (1899)
"There were other persecutions of the Baptists, but, notwithstanding the fines, imprisonments and banishments, they persisted in maintaining their faith. ..."

5. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1896)
"... are repeatedly arrested and convicted of vagrancy, or intoxication, or disorderly conduct, and to whom repeated imprisonments for such offenses afford ..."

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