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 ā Jul. 13, 2017
The stern genius of the North grudges immurement, even to great piety, remembering that Christ himself remained but forty days in the desert and then returned to deliver the world.
From Apologia Diffidentis by O. M. (Ormonde Maddock) Dalton
For this immurement, however, there exists fair compensation in the shape of a very pretty garden, or rather a series of garden spaces, which surround the dwelling on three sides.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series by Lafcadio Hearn
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 A Little Tour of France by Joseph Pennell
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
