What does immuring mean?
Immuring means present participle and gerund of immure.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
present participle and gerund of immure.
[…] 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; […]
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Immuring means present participle and gerund of immure.
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[…] 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; […]
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