prisonment
English
Etymology
Partly from prison + -ment, partly shortened from imprisonment.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɪzənmənt/
Noun
prisonment (countable and uncountable, plural prisonments)
- (now rare) Imprisonment. [from 15th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Yet will I never of my love repent, / But joy that for his sake I suffer prisonment.