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Immure vs Demure - What's the difference?

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In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between immure and demure

is that immure is (obsolete) a wall; an enclosure while demure is (obsolete) to look demurely.

As verbs the difference between immure and demure

is that immure is to cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls while demure is (obsolete) to look demurely.

As a noun immure

is (obsolete) a wall; an enclosure.

As an adjective demure is

quiet, modest, reserved, sober, or serious.

immure

English

Verb

  • To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls.
  • * 1799 , , Elle?mere: A Novel , Volume IV, William Lane (publisher), pages 219–220:
    • The gentlemen looked at each other for a ?olution of this ?trange event, each pre?uming an order had been obtained to again immure the unfortunate Clara.
  • * 1880 , , Preface,
    • In a happy moment for the Levy-Lawson-Levis, Lady Lytton was betrayed, seized, and immured . The Editor saw his chance, and made the Metropolis ring with the outrage. Levi was saved; so also was Lady Lytton.
  • * 1914', '', in ''The Single Hound'', republished 1924, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (introduction), '' The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson ,
    • Immured in Heaven! / What a Cell! / Let every Bondage be, / Thou sweetest of the Universe, / Like that which ravished thee!
  • * 1933 December, Albert H. Cotton, “ A Note on the Civil Remedies of Injured Consumers]”, in David F. Cavers (editor), Duke University School of Law, Law and Contemporary Problems , Volume I Number I, Duke University Press (1934), [http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/lcp1&id=75&terms=immured&collection=journals page 71:
    • This rule is followed in all common-law jurisdictions, although it was not adopted by the House of Lords until 1932, and then only with vigorous dissent, in a case where a mouse was immured in a ginger-beer bottle.
  • To put or bury within a wall.
    • John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.
  • * 1906 , , The Book of Days , Volume 1, page 807,
    • The dreadful punishment of immuring persons, or burying them alive in the walls of convents, was undoubtedly sometimes resorted to by monastic communities.
  • (transitive, crystallography, and, geology, of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity);
  • * 1975 , , American Crystallographic Association, Soviet Physics, Crystallography , Volume 19, Issues 1-3, page 296,
    • On increasing the supercooling, the step starts completely immuring the impurity and v rises sharply.

    Synonyms

    * (imprison) cloister, confine, imprison, incarcerate * (bury) inter

    Derived terms

    * immured

    Related terms

    * immurement

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A wall; an enclosure.
    • (Shakespeare)

    demure

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Quiet, modest, reserved, sober, or serious.
    • She is a demure young lady.
  • * W. Black
    • Nan was very much delighted in her demure way, and that delight showed itself in her face and in her clear bright eyes.
  • * '>citation
  • Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity.
  • * L'Estrange
    • A cat lay, and looked so demure , as if there had been neither life nor soul in her.
  • * Miss Mitford
    • Miss Lizzy, I have no doubt, would be as demure and coquettish, as if ten winters more had gone over her head.

    Derived terms

    * demureness

    Verb

    (demur)
  • (obsolete) To look demurely.
    • Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes... shall acquire no Honour Demuring upon me.'' – Shakespeare (1623) ''Antony & Cleopatra Act 4, Sc 16, Ln 30