单词 | immuration |
释义 | immurationn. = immurement n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [noun] prisonOE bonda1225 beclosing?c1225 narrowth?c1225 holdc1330 banda1400 festinance1426 duressc1430 enclosingc1440 closeness1530 durancea1535 closure1592 reclusedness1613 confinement1646 immurement1736 immuration1895 hack1899 prisonment1900 lockdown1973 1895 F. Pollock & F. W. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1895 |
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