confinement

CEFRC1

/kənˈfaɪnmənt/

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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The warden sent Dan back to solitary confinement.
In confinement ladies are attended, not by the ordinary doctors, but by women especially devoted to the calling, who regard their profession as honorable and humanitary.
“A Navy Sailor has been placed in pretrial confinement in connection with the death of Seaman Resendiz. Charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice are pending,” NCIS told CNN in a statement Thursday.

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“A Navy Sailor has been placed in pretrial confinement in connection with the death of Seaman Resendiz. Charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice are pending,” NCIS told CNN in a statement Thursday.
2025 June 13, Rosa Flores, “Missing Navy sailor found dead in Virginia, another sailor in custody”, in CNN
In confinement ladies are attended, not by the ordinary doctors, but by women especially devoted to the calling, who regard their profession as honorable and humanitary.
1887, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 31, page 629
At the wakes time Morel was working badly, and Mrs. Morel was trying to save against her confinement.
1913, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 1, in Sons and Lovers

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Borrowed from French confinement. By surface analysis, confine + -ment.