Immuring
noun, verb
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Definitions
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; […]"
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of immure form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"[…] 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; […]"
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