Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To release from a cloister or from confinement; set at liberty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To release from a cloister, or from confinement or seclusion; to set free; to liberate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To release from a
cloister , or fromconfinement orseclusion ; toliberate .
Etymologies
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un- + cloister
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Examples
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It is so difficult to uncloister you, that I regret not seeing you when you are out of your own ambry.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
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