immurement

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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

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)

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 Pennell, Joseph

Her face was very pale, as if from long immurement, and her eyes were no more merry.

From The Path of the King by Buchan, John

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