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Detainee

[dih-tey-nee, dee-tey-nee]

noun

a person held in custody, especially for a political offense or for questioning.

Origin:
1925–30; detain + -ee

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the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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detain (dɪˈteɪn)

—vb
1.	to delay; hold back; stop
2.	to confine or hold in custody; restrain
3.	archaic to retain or withhold

[C15: from Old French detenir, from Latin dētinēre to hold off, keep back, from de- + tenēre to hold]

de'tainable

—*adj*

detainee

—n

de'tainment

—n

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"I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I have nothing now or in the future to be ashamed of in this situation. That, at bottom, I myself have in a certain sense asked for this detention and this sentence, because I've always refused to change my opinion, for which I would be willing to give my life and not just remain in prison. That therefore I can only be tranquil and content with myself."

-Antonio Gramsci

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