Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
cloister .
Etymologies
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cloister + -like
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Examples
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To shut itself up, cloisterlike, in its own sufficiency, or to turn all its energies and resources inward, are alike to be false to its own ideals and to waste its most valuable opportunities.
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For eight or ten years my life was so absorbed in my children that it was cloisterlike, months elapsing, sometimes, when my feet were never outside the front gate.
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