Immurement

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Immurement \Im*mure"ment\, n.
     The act of immuring, or the state of being immured;
     imprisonment.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  immurement
       n : the state of being imprisoned; "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" [syn: {captivity}, {imprisonment}, {incarceration}]