immuring

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noun

The act of walling up.

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of immure
nounimmuring (plural immurings)

plural immurings

  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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Chicago

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