Definition of Jailing

1. Verb. (present participle of jail) ¹

2. Noun. An instance of a person being jailed. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Jailing

1. jail [v] - See also: jail

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jailing

jailbreak
jailbreaker
jailbreakers
jailbreaking
jailbreaks
jailbroke
jailbroken
jailed
jailee
jailer
jaileress
jaileresses
jailers
jailhouse
jailhouses
jailing (current term)
jailings
jailkeeper
jailkeepers
jailless
jaillike
jailor
jailoress
jailoresses
jailors
jails
jailward
jailyard
jailyards
jaipong

Literary usage of Jailing

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

1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"[Religious jailing off-~\ IT cannot be denied, but in this last age in most of our memories, our nation Las manifestly degenerated from the practice of ..."

2. A Grammar of the Greek Language, Part First: A Practical Grammar of the by Alpheus Crosby (1844)
"The dependent or leaning cases, they represented as oblique lines, jailing of, more or less, from the perpendicular. From this fancied falling off, ..."

3. Criminalizing the Seriously Mentally Ill: The Abuse of Jails As Mental Hospitals by Edwin Fuller Torrey, Public Citizens Health Research Group (2002)
"... Problems and Consequences of jailing The Mentally III "Many mentally ill people who don't understand their need for treatment and/or are unwilling to ..."

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