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prisonous en · ADJ

Etymology

From prison + -ous.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Resembling or characteristic of a prison.
   • Their sloping ceilings, cumbrous rusty locks and grates, and heavy wooden bins and beams, slowly mouldering withal, had a prisonous look, and he had the haggard face of a prisoner. 1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC:

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