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Definition of Confining
1. Adjective. Restricting the scope or freedom of action.
2. Adjective. Crowded. "Close quarters"
Definition of Confining
1. Verb. (present participle of confine) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Confining
1. confine [v] - See also: confine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confining
Literary usage of Confining
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Permafrost: North American Contribution [to The] Second International Conference by Building Research Advisory Board Staff (1973)
"Nominal hydrostatic confining pressures a3 of 0.34 X IO6 to 8.2 X IO6 N/m2 were
used; superimposed axial (de- viator) stresses (O] -o3)[l] in the creep ..."
2. Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical by Benjamin Rumford, Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) (1798)
"Of the Means of confining HEAT, and DIRECTING ITS ... and may be employed with
great Advantage for confining it — is employed by Nature for that ..."
3. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"The government, confining themselves to the questions of prerogative, easily
defeated the motion. In 1823 Wilson went to Spain to take part in the war first ..."
4. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"... he might much more privately famish him in his servile state, by confining
him to the plantation, where he could neither be a prosecutor or a witness. ..."
5. History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1886)
"SM Amell, 1870—In 1871 Congress Passed the Organic Act for the District confining
the Right of Suffrage to Males—In 1875 it Withdrew all Legislative Power ..."
6. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1843)
"... confining on their own ; and took AC.4M. a great booty from the Lacedaemonians,
which they The A^ve» take sold for no less than twenty-five talents. ..."
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