PENT

pent

Verb

pent

Adjective

  1. Confined in a pen, imprisoned.
    ''My object all sublime
    ''I shall achieve in time —
    ''To let the punishment fit the crime —
    ''The punishment fit the crime;
    ''And make each prisoner pent
    ''Unwillingly represent
    ''A source of innocent merriment!
    Of innocent merriment! — W.S. Gilbert, ''''.


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