immure
verb (used with object)
to enclose within walls.
immurement
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a word derived from
immure.
Example Sentences
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Like Jack, who struggles to move beyond immurement in his tech world and make human contact with Sally, De Palma has encountered a similar challenge in his own life.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2017
And I had smelled before that cold, dank, furnished draught of air that hurried by her to escape immurement in the furnished house.
From Rolling Stones by O. Henry
Our peregrinations made it very clear that Carcassonne was impregnable; it is impossible to imagine, without having seen them, such refinements of immurement, such ingenuities of resistance.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
There have been horrible instances of voluntary immurement in Christian Europe, and above all in the Christian East; but not quite—though very nearly—as bad as this.
From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
And then he thought of the three years she had suffered immurement, uncomplaining, and a flush of shame warmed him, for he carried fair play as an item in his creed.
From The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry
