His sinews waxen weak and raw / Through long imprisonment and hard constraint.
Blackstone
Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by forcibly detaining one in the public streets.
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Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings (..) pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves (..)