immuring

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of immure

noun

  1. The act of walling up.
    […] what had often been read of in books, but for many generations had happily been unknown to England, for the incarcerations, the torturings, the starvings, the immurings, the murderings proper to a monastic; […] 1857, John Henry Newman, Lectures on the present position of Catholics in England

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