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Committal vs Internment - What's the difference?

committal | internment |

As nouns the difference between committal and internment

is that committal is the act of entrusting something to someone while internment is confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.

As an adjective committal

is of or relating to a committee.

committal

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of entrusting something to someone.
  • The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
  • The act of perpetrating an offence.
  • The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.

    • Alternative forms

    * commital

    Related terms

    * commit * commitment * noncommittal * committal hearing

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to a committee.

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    internment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.