Imprisonment vs Reimprisonment - What's the difference?
imprisonment | reimprisonment |
A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.
* Spenser
* Blackstone
* (Sir Walter Raleigh)
As nouns the difference between imprisonment and reimprisonment
is that imprisonment is a confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime while reimprisonment is imprisonment again or anew.imprisonment
English
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