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Prisonment vs Imprisonment - What's the difference?

prisonment | imprisonment |

As nouns the difference between prisonment and imprisonment

is that prisonment is imprisonment while imprisonment is a confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.

prisonment

English

Noun

  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.12:
  • *:Yet will I never of my love repent, / But joy that for his sake I suffer prisonment .

    • imprisonment

    English

    Alternative forms

    * emprisonment (obsolete)

    Noun

  • A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.
  • * Spenser
    • His sinews waxen weak and raw / Through long imprisonment and hard constraint.
  • * Blackstone
    • 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.
  • * (Sir Walter Raleigh)
    • 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