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incarceration
[ in-kahr-suh-rey-shuhn ]
noun
- the act of incarcerating, or putting in prison or another enclosure:
The rate of incarceration has increased dramatically.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of incarceration1
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Example Sentences
I also want to alert you to the broader circumstances of my incarceration.
Shortly thereafter, T.I. lent his first post-incarceration verse to a remix of “Magic.”
Even when financial facilitators are arrested, incarceration is brief.
These crimes of fashion proved the men were feminine and thus gay and therefore worthy of incarceration.
Before my decade of incarceration, I had never seen a dead body.
This patient's incarceration in the asylum was due to a very striking manifestation of his paranoia querulans.
He had been a bheestee (water carrier) to the house of Ramabai up to the young banker's incarceration.
We stumbled down the jail stairway up which, three months before, we had been conducted to our long incarceration in the cage.
At first I imagined that my laundress had permitted some stranger to occupy my rooms during my incarceration.
The following night, the annoyance, which had ceased during her incarceration, recommenced with double fury.
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