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Severity :: Severity (n.) Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war..

Wrongous :: Wrongous (a.) Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment..

Captivate :: Captivate (v. t.) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.

Liberty :: Liberty (n.) Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion..

Close :: Close (v. t.) Strictly confined; carefully quarded; as, a close prisoner..

Grate :: Grate (n.) A structure or frame containing parallel or crosed bars, with interstices; a kind of latticework, such as is used ia the windows of prisons and cloisters..

Turnkey :: Turnkey (n.) A person who has charge of the keys of a prison, for opening and fastening the doors; a warder..

Incorrigible :: Incorrigible (n.) One who is corrigible; especially, a hardened criminal; as, the perpetual imprisonment of incorrigibles..

Jug :: Jug (v. t.) To commit to jail; to imprison.

Quod :: Quod (n.) A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; hence, a prison..

Ransom :: Ransom (n.) The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom..

Bind :: Bind (v. t.) To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner..

Quad :: Quad (n.) A quadrangle; hence, a prison..

Approvement :: Approvement (n.) a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now known as turning king's (or queen's) evidence in England, and state's evidence in the United States..

Imprisoned :: Imprisoned (imp. & p. p.) of Impriso.

Felony :: Felony (n.) A heinous crime; especially, a crime punishable by death or imprisonment..

Enfranchise :: Enfranchise (v. t.) To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power..

Treat :: Treat (v. t.) To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly..

Detainer :: Detainer (n.) A writ authorizing the keeper of a prison to continue to keep a person in custody.

Reprisal :: Reprisal (n.) The act of retorting on an enemy by inflicting suffering or death on a prisoner taken from him, in retaliation for an act of inhumanity..

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