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Internment vs Confinement - What's the difference?

internment | confinement |

As nouns the difference between internment and confinement

is that internment is confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country while confinement is the act of confining or the state of being confined.

internment

English

Noun

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

    • confinement

    English

    Noun

  • the act of confining or the state of being confined
  • lying-in, time of giving birth
  • *1913 , DH Lawrence,
  • *:At the wakes time Morel was working badly, and Mrs. Morel was trying to save against her confinement .