• Confinement

    Origin

    From French confinement

    Full definition of confinement

    Noun

    confinement

    (countable and uncountable; plural confinements)
    1. the act of confining or the state of being confined
    2. 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.
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