Associations to the word «Immurement»

Wiktionary

IMMUREMENT, noun. Capital punishment by entombing for life.

Dictionary definition

IMMUREMENT, noun. 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".

Wise words

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