prisonment

English

Etymology

Partly from prison +‎ -ment, partly shortened from imprisonment.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɪzənmənt/

Noun

prisonment (countable and uncountable, plural prisonments)

1. (now rare) Imprisonment. [from 15th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Yet will I never of my love repent, / But joy that for his sake I suffer prisonment.