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
How delicious is that refreshing breeze after his terrible immurement!
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
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 Henry MacMahon
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
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
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