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 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 Henry, O.

"Two years after your immurement in the cell, the food having been for some time untouched, the wall was opened, and upon the pallet was found a decayed carcase in mouldering, monkish vestments."

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison

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.

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)