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
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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