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Internment   Listen
noun
Internment  n.  
1.
Confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.
2.
Confining within a country for the duration of a war; usually of citizens of a hostile power.





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... their trial on a charge of sedition. Most of them were found guilty and sentenced to fine and imprisonment. They were confined in Richmond Prison, Dublin. Their incarceration did not last long, and indeed, was what might be called "internment" rather than actual imprisonment. A majority of the law lords in the House of Peers, the final tribunal, annulled the sentences on the ground that the jury had been unfairly chosen—was packed, in fact. O'Connell and his colleagues were set free after a few months; but the leader ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 • Various


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