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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

confination en · NOUN

Etymology

From confine + -ation.

Meanings

  1. (nonstandard, rare, uncountable) The quality of being confined.
    • Predisposed to consumption in no other way, only by confination of body; he was somewhat stooped over, and flat-chested; one side a little more flattened than the other[…] 1857, The Southern Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences: