Definition of Confinement

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Definition of Confinement
	Confinement Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in. Related Definitions: Any, By, Caused, Childbirth, Liberty, Lying-In, Of, Restraint, Seclusion, Sickness, That, Within

Confinement Quotations

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
Tennessee Williams

In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
Billie Holiday

All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.
Nellie Bly

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
Martha Beck

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
Robert Smithson

If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the use of information.
John Yoo

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
W. L. George

It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it.
Thomas Mellon

Confinement Translations

confinement in German is Gefangenschaft

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