immuration
(ɪmjʊəˈreɪʃən)
[f. immure v. + -ation.]
= immurement.
| 1895 Pollock & Maitland Hist. Eng. Law I. ii. ii. 427 Stephen Langton seems to have condemned two of the laity to that close imprisonment which was known as immuration. 1959 J. L. M. Trim in Quirk & Smith Teaching of Eng. iii. 77 [Speech training] may easily lead to..an increasing immuration of the individual instead of the liberation which education should bring. 1963 Yale Rev. Winter 291 The first, the cloistered family, guarded the purity of the flesh and preserved the ideal of chastity through the Dark Ages by immuration. |