immurement Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the state of being imprisoned
    imprisonment; incarceration; captivity.
    • he was held in captivity until he died
    • the imprisonment of captured soldiers
    • his ignominious incarceration in the local jail
    • he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon

WordNet


Im*mure"ment noun
Definitions
  1. The act iif immuring, or the state of being immured; imprsonment.

Webster 1913