Imprisonment vs Impeachment - What's the difference?
imprisonment | impeachment |
A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.
* Spenser
* Blackstone
* (Sir Walter Raleigh)
The act of impeaching a public official, either elected or appointed, before a tribunal charged with determining the facts of the matter
the state of being impeached
a demonstration in a court of law, or before another finder of fact, that a witness was ingenuine before, and therefore, is less likely to tell the truth now
(obsolete) Hindrance; impediment; obstruction.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between imprisonment and impeachment
is that imprisonment is a confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime while impeachment is the act of impeaching a public official, either elected or appointed, before a tribunal charged with determining the facts of the matter.imprisonment
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* 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
impeachment
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* empeachment (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia impeachment) (en noun)- Willing to march on to Calais, / Without impeachment .
