immurement
- 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
The upset released our characters from the horrors of prison immurement, only to plunge them in the more awful tyranny of the New Terror.
From Orphans of the Storm by MacMahon, 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 Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)
At the conclusion of this half century's immurement what would the world say to the Polish composer's music?
From Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques by Huneker, James
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 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock)
