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confiner¹

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From confine (verb) + -er.

noun confiners

  1. One who, or that which, limits or restrains. […] as he attended him through the streets, the common people, and even women, uttered loud exclamations of abuse against him, calling him the murderer of syeds, and confiner of Chaund Sultana.

confiner²

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From confine (noun) + -er.

noun confiners

  1. obsolete A person who lives on the confines, boundary or edge; a neighbour. 1599, Samuel Daniel, The Civil Wars of England, Book 1, Stanza 18, in Poeticall Essayes, London: Simon Waterson, p. 4, So did the worldes proud Mistres Rome at first Striue with a hard beginning, warr’d with need; Forcing her strong Confiners to the worst, And in her bloud her greatnes first did bre
  2. obsolete A person who lives within the confines; an inhabitant. The senate hath stirr’d up the confiners And gentlemen of Italy, most willing spirits, That promise noble service […]
  3. obsolete A prisoner incarcerated for a set term. 1819, Joseph John Gurney, Notes on a Visit Made to Some of the Prisons in Scotland and the North of England in Company with Elizabeth Fry, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, p. 64, Lancaster Castle […] contains two classes of prisoners; first, the untried, and those sentenced to death or tr

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@misc{confiner_2026,
  title = {confiner},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/confiner},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}