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

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.

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

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 Hearn, Lafcadio

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)