Definitions
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- noun The state or condition of being
confined ; lack of space.
Etymologies
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confined + -ness
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Examples
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O ye shepherds, happy, thrice happy, in the confinedness of your prospects, ye would then envy me!
Imogen A Pastoral Romance William Godwin 1796
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The confinedness of the prospect, though rich infinitely beyond any thing she had yet seen, and though not naturally calculated to fatigue and disgust, was destructive of all its beauty in the eyes of Imogen.
Imogen A Pastoral Romance William Godwin 1796
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