encarcerate

[Laurence Horn]

Reminds me that in a novel I was just reading I came across the term (I think for the first time) "excarcerated", describing someone who had been released/paroled from prison.

LH

On Nov 25, 2012, at 1:53 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> In a carefuly written passge.
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> http://www.arthurian-legend.com/more-about/more-about-arthur-7.php:
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> What is clear is that the author of Le Morte d'Arthur was a member of the
> English gentry who mourned the passing of the age of chivalry and that the
> work was largely written whilst he was encarcerated.
>
> JL
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