Fetter vs Imprisonment - What's the difference?
fetter | imprisonment | Synonyms |
A chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal – often by its legs (usually in plural) .
(figurative) Anything that restricts or restrains.
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A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.
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Fetter is a synonym of imprisonment.
As nouns the difference between fetter and imprisonment
is that fetter is a chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal – often by its legs (usually in plural) while imprisonment is a confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.As a verb fetter
is to shackle or bind up with fetters.fetter
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(wikipedia fetter)Noun
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Synonyms
(chains on legs) * leg ironsHyponyms
(chain binding generally) * handcuff, handcuffs * leg irons * manacle, manacles * shackle, shacklesDerived terms
* unfetterHyponyms
* handcuff * manacle * shackleimprisonment
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Alternative forms
* emprisonment (obsolete)Noun
- His sinews waxen weak and raw / Through long imprisonment and hard constraint.
- Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment , whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by forcibly detaining one in the public streets.
- Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments , tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings