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Solitary confinement   /sˈɑlətˌɛri kənfˈaɪnmənt/   Listen
Solitary confinement

noun
1.
Confinement of a prisoner in isolation from other prisoners.  Synonym: solitary.






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"Solitary confinement" Quotes from Famous Books



... she should be deprived of it. Albinia had never seen him so much incensed, for nothing makes a man so angry as to have been alarmed; and he was doubly annoyed when he found that she thought Sophy too unwell to be left, as he intended, to solitary confinement. ...
— The Young Step-Mother • Charlotte M. Yonge

... solitary confinement might perhaps be beneficial," said Bonaparte. "It will enable you, Waldo, to reflect on the enormity of the sin you have committed against our Father in heaven. And you may also think of the submission you owe to those ...
— The Story of an African Farm • (AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner

... to me here, that he will be glad to show me, in operation, the only true system of prison discipline; the only unchallengeable way of making sincere and lasting converts and penitents—which, you know, is by solitary confinement. What ...
— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens

... in her solitary confinement, unloved and complaining, might be considered a figure either repulsive or pathetic, according to the onlooker's point of view. Fortunately there are always a few big enough at heart to turn towards the world a face of affection rather than of ...
— Jewel Weed • Alice Ames Winter

... was evil; while his companion came to me as revealment of all that was true and worthy, in a degree I had never known before. I could not banish either from my mind. For months I had been in prison, expecting a death sentence, much of the time passed in solitary confinement, and now, with that cloud lifted, I had come forth into a fresh existence only to be confronted by this man and woman, representing exact opposites. Their peculiarities took immediate possession ...
— Wolves of the Sea • Randall Parrish


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