Immurement (Noun)
Meaning
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".
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.
Examples
- The immurement of the captured spies lasted for nearly two decades in the heavily guarded maximum-security prison.
- Their long and torturous immurement left the group with deep psychological scars that never fully healed.
- After his defeat in battle, the warlord ordered the immurement of the rival king in a dark and damp cell deep within the castle walls.
- Throughout history, various dictators have employed immurement as a means to silence and intimidate their enemies.
- The king's advisors conspired against him and eventually arranged for his secret immurement in a remote, abandoned tower.