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Cloistered

adjective

1.

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

2.

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)

1.

Surround with a cloister, as of a garden.

2.

Surround with a cloister.

3.

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

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"Cloistered" Quotes from Famous Books

... experiences, my recollections are, on the whole, pleasurable, but they are somewhat remote from anything that can properly be called scholastic. They are associated with the charm of certain cloistered buildings—with Magdalen especially, and the shades of Addison's Walk; with country drives in dogcarts to places like Witney and Abingdon; with dinners there in the summer evenings, and with a sense of being happily outside ...

— Memoirs of Life and Literature • W. H. Mallock

... be denied that on the whole their religion is too self-centred. There are not many maxims so fundamentally wrong-headed and un-Christian as Suso's advice to "live as if you were the only person in the world."[22] The life of the cloistered saint may be abundantly justified—for the spiritual activity of some of them has been of far greater service to mankind than the fussy benevolence of many "practical" busybodies—but the idea of social service, whether in the school of Martha ...

— Light, Life, and Love • W. R. Inge

... make others happy. She might never have a home of her own, but she might brighten and cheer other homes. As an unprofessed Sister of Charity, she might go among those poor ones doing good; and dimly in the future she could see the cloistered, grateful walls shutting her from the troubles of this feverish life. Standing there by the curtained window, her eyes fixed on the pitchy darkness, a new era in ...

— Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters - A Novel • May Agnes Fleming

... we are moving is, I believe, the Enthronement of the Christ. Christ has always been, in the hearts of the few, enthroned and enshrined. Even in the dark years of mediaeval superstition and unrest, there were the cloistered ones who maintained traditions of faith and did works of mercy, as there were knightly ones who upheld the ministry of chivalry, and followed, though afar, the tender shining of the Holy Grail. But now all the signs point to a great and ...

— The Warriors • Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown

... what we have been accustomed to consider the modern world then began for women. They were no longer cloistered—whether in convents or the home—but neither were they any longer worshipped. They began to be treated as human beings, and when men idealized them in figures of romantic charm or pathos—figures like Shakespeare's Rosalind ...

— The Task of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis

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