Con*fine"ment (?), n.
1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement
when the sight is pent
up.
Addison.
2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in.
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