solitary confinement
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Origin:
1775–85
1775–85
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| solitary confinement | |
| —n | |
| isolation imposed on a prisoner, as by confinement in a special cell | |
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Solitary confinement
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Example sentences
They had been committed to the prison after his siege of solitary confinement had begun.
He had been kept in solitary confinement on a starvation diet.
Solitary confinement has been used in the past to seek quiet time and to study.
There he was subjected to solitary confinement and other things.
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