Confiner
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
"[…] as he attended him through the streets, the common people, and even women, uttered loud exclamations of abuse against him, calling him the murderer of syeds, and confiner of Chaund Sultana."
- 2 A person who lives on the confines, boundary or edge; a neighbour. obsolete
"1599, Samuel Daniel, The Civil Wars of England, Book 1, Stanza 18, in Poeticall Essayes, London: Simon Waterson, p. 4, So did the worldes proud Mistres Rome at first Striue with a hard beginning, warr’d with need; Forcing her strong Confiners to the worst, And in her bloud her greatnes first did breed:"
- 3 A person who lives within the confines; an inhabitant. obsolete
"The senate hath stirr’d up the confiners And gentlemen of Italy, most willing spirits, That promise noble service […]"
- 4 A prisoner incarcerated for a set term. obsolete
"1819, Joseph John Gurney, Notes on a Visit Made to Some of the Prisons in Scotland and the North of England in Company with Elizabeth Fry, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, p. 64, Lancaster Castle […] contains two classes of prisoners; first, the untried, and those sentenced to death or transportation; and secondly, confiners,—persons sent hither for terms of imprisonment and labour."
Example
More examples"[…] as he attended him through the streets, the common people, and even women, uttered loud exclamations of abuse against him, calling him the murderer of syeds, and confiner of Chaund Sultana."
Etymology
From confine (verb) + -er.
From confine (noun) + -er.