Dictionary entry

Confinement

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Con‐fine″ment (?), n. 1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.

The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up.

Addison.

2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in.