cloistered
C2Meanings
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adj
providing privacy or seclusion
the cloistered academic world of books
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adj
Dwelling or raised in, or as if in, cloisters; solitary.
Cloistered friars and vestal nuns.
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adj
Isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence.
[…]“The Vegan” is a less cloistered book, with bigger, more universal themes.
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4
adj
Furnished with cloisters.
both the Greeks and Romans […]had commonly two cloiſtered open Courts, one serving for the Womens ſide, and the other for the Men
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5
adj
of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
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adj
Naive, lacking in worldliness.
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7
verb
simple past and past participle of cloister