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cloistered::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical |
cloistered::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | reclusive, secluded, sequestered |
the cloistered academic world of books.
Examples of cloistered
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The last thing the cloistered Lee wants is anyone snooping into his private life.
From the lohud.com
They live in a cloistered world that has not changed while much of America has.
From the washingtonpost.com
He intends to live in a previously cloistered monastery in the Vatican Gardens.
From the sacbee.com
But you can't complain too much because you begin to sound like a cloistered nun.
From the suntimes.com
They have long spent their careers cloistered, like the objects they protected.
From the nytimes.com
Today the blasts have stopped, mostly, but the city is cloistered in concrete.
From the guardian.co.uk
Nixon was absent, and in that cloistered environment the men were not so hesitant.
From the time.com
It seems like a lonely, cloistered place in which to be passionate about the world.
From the theatlantic.com
In Milan in the 1600s, three-quarters of the female nobility were cloistered.
From the economist.com
- Of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
- Providing privacy or seclusion; "the cloistered academic world of books"; "sat close together in the sequestered pergola"; "sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree"; "a secluded romantic spot"
- A cloister (from Latin claustrum, "enclosure") is a rectangular open space surrounded by covered walks or open galleries, with open arcades on the inner side, running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle or garth. ...
- Pertaining to one who lives in a cloister or a cloister-like environment, or who was raised that way; Pertaining to isolation, protection, being hidden way for the sake of maintaining innocence; naive, lacking in worldliness
- (Cloistering) (passive) barring of nonmonastics from the house; (active) prohibition of monastics from exiting the house
- Describes certain contemplative communities that limit their contact with the outside world. Not all contemplative communities are cloistered.
- (adj) secluded; hidden away from the world
- Dwelling in cloisters (A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.); solitary.
