immuring
English
editVerb
editimmuring
- present participle and gerund of immure
Noun
editimmuring (plural immurings)
- The act of walling up.
- 1857, John Henry Newman, Lectures on the present position of Catholics in England:
- […] 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; […]