immurement

That was one reason for her self-imposed immurement.

He had several of his wives executed by strangulation, immurement, dismemberment and other means.

Immurement was practiced in Mongolia as recently as the early 20th century.

Was Rodney's immurement perhaps not only overliteral but unnecessary?

The band's name "Emmure" is a reference to immurement, a form of execution.

Intentional: buried alive as a method of execution or murder, called immurement when the person is entombed within walls.

Permanent storage in an above-ground tomb or mausoleum (also referred to as immurement)

This contrasts sharply with the burning or perpetual immurement meted out to members of heretical sects.

The deafness, as Mr. Hughes notes, meant isolation and immurement within "the silent prison of the self."

This practice was, strictly speaking, immurement (i.e., being walled up and left to die) rather than premature burial.

In "The Black Cat," the narrator's pet cat accidentally suffers immurement, but is discovered and rescued.

On 29 July 1941, a camp count found that three prisoners were missing and Fritzsch sentenced 10 remaining prisoners to immurement.

It was evident that a whole day and part of another night had gone by since his immurement; for the moon rode high in the pale sapphire welkin.

But there is no evidence that Julian had ever been a nun before her immurement, nor is there anything distinctively Benedictine about her spirituality.

Like several of Poe's stories, and in keeping with the 19th-century fascination with the subject, the narrative revolves around a person being buried alive-in this case, by immurement.

According to critics John Neubauer and Marcel Cornis-Pope, he was "the first author to attempt a synthetic treatment of the immurement motif in Eastern Europe".

When the Moral Climate Monitors come to visit, each of them is killed in a manner reminiscent of a different Poe story, culminating in the immurement of the lead inspector.

The folklore of many Southeastern European peoples refers to immurement as the mode of death for the victim sacrificed during the completion of a construction project, such as a bridge or fortress.

Having rendered his world so tantalizingly suggestive, Mr. Kadare then drops in a most potent ingredient: a legend of immurement - the notion that a wall, to remain standing, might demand a human sacrifice.

Manning has proposed that the immurement of shoes, garments, and other objects may be related to the belief in a household deity or helpful spirit found throughout northern Europe from Ireland to western Russia.

He had no palace pages to send; it was one of his own younger sons who came to my house, and he looked rather frayed and disheveled after his long immurement in the palace.

The second section, "Sealed With a Kiss" was a collaboration with Chris Broderick with lyrics inspired by immurement and Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Cask of Amontillado.

Suffice it to say that the immurement of Dooden Mesa was gratifying to our Polkjhy Ship Commanders . . . yet I/we nursed brooding reservations within this stack of restless rings.

Immurement (from Latin im- "in" and mūrus "wall"; literally "walling in") is a form of imprisonment, usually for life, in which a person is locked within an enclosed space and all possible exits turned into impassable walls.

On learning the truth, she consents to receive the visit of Lara, an admirer of hers, whom she loves; and, when the Bluebeard, Valdini, surprises his victim and proceeds to the immurement, his first wife slips in most conveniently and whisks him off, leaving Valentine free to marry Lara.