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Meet a word : Carceral
Adjective
Definition : of, relating to, or suggesting a jail or prison
Example sentence
Every time John walked by the old hospital he was haunted by the abandoned building’s imposing carceral towers and tiny windows
Did you know
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Describing a painting of John Howard visiting a prison in 1787, Robert Hughes wrote that Howard was " the pioneer of English carceral reform " (Time Magazine, November 11, 1985). " Prison reform" might be the more common phrase, but the use of " carceral " was by no means unprecedented. Vladimir Nabokov, in his inimitable prose, described a prison scene in Invitation to a Beheading thusly : " The door opened, whining, rattling and groaning in keeping with all the rules of carceral counterpoint. " An adjective borrowed directly from Late Latin, " carceral " appeared shortly after " incarcerate " ( to imprison ), which first showed up in English around the mid-1500s; they're both ultimately from " carcer " Latin for prison
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Definition : of, relating to, or suggesting a jail or prison
Example sentence
Every time John walked by the old hospital he was haunted by the abandoned building’s imposing carceral towers and tiny windows
Did you know
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Describing a painting of John Howard visiting a prison in 1787, Robert Hughes wrote that Howard was " the pioneer of English carceral reform " (Time Magazine, November 11, 1985). " Prison reform" might be the more common phrase, but the use of " carceral " was by no means unprecedented. Vladimir Nabokov, in his inimitable prose, described a prison scene in Invitation to a Beheading thusly : " The door opened, whining, rattling and groaning in keeping with all the rules of carceral counterpoint. " An adjective borrowed directly from Late Latin, " carceral " appeared shortly after " incarcerate " ( to imprison ), which first showed up in English around the mid-1500s; they're both ultimately from " carcer " Latin for prison
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