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

There have been horrible instances of voluntary immurement in Christian Europe, and above all in the Christian East; but not quite—though very nearly—as bad as this.

From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

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)

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