Confination

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being confined. nonstandard, rare, uncountable

    "Predisposed to consumption in no other way, only by confination of body; he was somewhat stooped over, and flat-chested; one side a little more flattened than the other[…]"

Example

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"Predisposed to consumption in no other way, only by confination of body; he was somewhat stooped over, and flat-chested; one side a little more flattened than the other[…]"

Etymology

From confine + -ation.

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