Word Meanings - DETAINMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Detention. Blackstone.

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• DETENTION
  1. The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding. 2. The state of being detained ; delay from necessity. 3. Confinement; restraint; custody. The archduke Philip . . . found himself in a sort of honorable detention at Henry's court. Hallam.