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Cloistered

adjective

Of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows. Synonyms: cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical.

Providing privacy or seclusion. Synonyms: reclusive, secluded, sequestered. "Sat close together in the sequestered pergola" , "Sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree" , "A secluded romantic spot"

Cloister

verb

(past & past part. cloistered; pres. part. cloistering)

Surround with a cloister, as of a garden.

Surround with a cloister.

Seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister.

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"Cloistered" Quotes from Famous Books

... see it rolling along whilst they take their rest. The gentlemen also draw up their prancing steeds, though not within hail of the carriages, but they in the fresh air and under the green trees have as much advantage over the Seoras as the wandering friar has over the cloistered nun. ...

— Life in Mexico • Frances Calderon de la Barca

... and gross. The fact was that he had a perfectly simple manliness about him, and an infallible tact, which was wholly unaffected, as to the limits of decorum. The result was that one could talk to him with the utmost plainness and directness. His was not a cloistered and secluded temperament. He knew the world, and had no fear of it or shrinking ...

— Hugh - Memoirs of a Brother • Arthur Christopher Benson

... the common life as a man of his patrician instincts and cloistered habits could. I could go to him with any new find about it and be sure of delighting him; after I began making my involuntary and all but unconscious studies of Yankee character, especially in the ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... little Cappella Santa is a rich and lovely Giovanni Bellini, with sacred relics in jars above and below it, and outside is the gay little cloistered garden of the still existing monastery, with a figure of S. Francis in the midst of ...

— A Wanderer in Venice • E.V. Lucas

... to which our republic is indebted for a third of its territory, including the ground on which we stand; from the land which has taught us that the most scholarly devotion to the languages and learning of the cloistered past is compatible with leadership in the practical application of modern science to the arts of life; from the island whose language and literature have found a new field and a vigorous growth in this region; from the last ...

— Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science • Simon Newcomb

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