Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or suggesting a cloister; secluded.
- adjective Living in a cloister.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a cloister; of the nature of a cloister; belonging to or dwelling in a cloister.
- Secluded; retired.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or confined in, a cloister; recluse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or living in a
cloister . - adjective
Sheltered from theworld ;monastic . - adjective
Secluded .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
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Examples
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A kind of cloistral quietude pervaded the place; the devotees who came in spoke in low voices, as if in a confessional, slipped their purchases into their bags furtively, and went off with downcast eyes.
His Masterpiece ��mile Zola 1871
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Who does not feel, when following Browne into his study or his garden, that here is a kind of cloistral retreat from the common places of the outside world, that the handsome man is a true gentleman and a noble friend, and that his best clothes are his every-day wear?
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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Started but did not finish: 4 (4.2%) … all distinterested lovers of books, will always look to [literature], as to all other fine art, for a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from a certain vulgarity in the actual world.
A Progressive on the Prairie » March Bibliolust » Print 2010
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Started but did not finish: 4 (4.2%) … all distinterested lovers of books, will always look to [literature], as to all other fine art, for a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from a certain vulgarity in the actual world.
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After sounding the profound cloistral silence, she seemed to be listening to remote, inarticulate revelations of the life of passion, which accounts feelings as of higher value than things.
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After sounding the profound cloistral silence, she seemed to be listening to remote, inarticulate revelations of the life of passion, which accounts feelings as of higher value than things.
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It is this capacity, I believe, that promotes Borges so far above the level of the exotic antiquarian, the obsessed bibliophile, the cloistral mapmaker, the crazed pedant, and the unreliable editor: diverting roles that he vastly enjoyed and at which he excelled.
The Immortal 2004
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It is this capacity, I believe, that promotes Borges so far above the level of the exotic antiquarian, the obsessed bibliophile, the cloistral mapmaker, the crazed pedant, and the unreliable editor: diverting roles that he vastly enjoyed and at which he excelled.
The Immortal 2004
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My own room, if it interests you to know, is somewhat cloistral and narrow, but it looks straight over the lawns to the hill-rise and the woods beyond.
Flowering Wilderness 2004
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We have now only four boys of tender age among us, two of them not committed to the cloistral life, but here to be educated.
The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983
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