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

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

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 Henry, O.

I can not tell you all we spoke of in that day-long immurement.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis

Persons conversant with the Vedas have said that death and immurement are both painful.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan