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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Confinement \Con*fine"ment\, n. 1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up --Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: confinement n 1: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" [syn: {parturiency}, {labor}, {labour}, {lying-in}, {travail}, {childbed}] 2: restraint of a person's liberty [syn: {detention}] 3: the state of being confined; "he was held in solitary confinement"
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