encarcerate

[Jonathan Lighter]

I prefer "outcarcerated."

JL

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> 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.
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> LH
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> On Nov 25, 2012, at 1:53 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > JL
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