1915, D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow. ch. 13:Maggie was always single, always withheld. . . . It was during this winter that Ursula suffered and enjoyed most keenly Maggie's fundamental sadness of enclosedness.
1984, Christopher E. G. Benfey, Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Others, ISBN 9780870234378, p. 63 (Google preview):We must ask, first, whether our privacy — call it our distance or enclosedness or unknowability with respect to others — is elected or inevitable.
2006 Feb. 26, "Deeper Waters: Sarah Waters speaks to Anthony Quinn, The Age (Australia) (retrieved 27 Oct 2013)"I was thinking about the moment when that enclosedness, which can be protective, tips over into something menacing and unpleasant."
