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Cloister

noun

Residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery). Synonym: religious residence.

A courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions).

verb

(past & past part. cloistered; pres. part. cloistering)

Surround with a cloister, as of a garden.

Surround with a cloister.

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

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"Cloister" Quotes from Famous Books

... looked as if she had stepped out of a cloister into an unknown world, and the dog added to the ...

— Jacqueline of Golden River • H. M. Egbert

... calling, though I firmly believe that by far the greater number lead a life of privation and virtue. Their conduct can, to a certain extent, be judged of by the world; but the pale nuns, devout and pure, immured in the cloister for life, kneeling before the shrine, or chanting hymns in the silence of the night, a veil both truly and allegorically must shade their virtues or their failings. The nuns of the Santa Teresa and of other strict orders, who live sparingly, profess ...

— Life in Mexico • Frances Calderon De La Barca

... back the inroads of the Mercians and even conquer Strathclyde, before the anarchy of his own kingdom he could only fling down his sceptre and seek a refuge in the cloister of Lindisfarne. From the death of Baeda the history of Northumbria became in fact little more than a wild story of lawlessness and bloodshed. King after king was swept away by treason and revolt, the country fell into the hands of its turbulent nobles, its very fields lay ...

— History of the English People, Volume I (of 8) - Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 • John Richard Green

... hear the same complaints. "What was the use of our having lived in a cloister, twenty, thirty, forty years; what was the sense of having vowed chastity, poverty, obedience; what good are all the masses and canonical hours that we read; what profit is there in fasting, praying, ...

— Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians • Martin Luther

... had again implored him not yet to take; she feared that he would, she marvelled at his abstaining; the old wheel revolved, as it ever does with creatures that wait for circumstances to bring the change they cannot work for themselves; and once more the two fell asunder. She had thoughts of the cloister. Her venerable relative died joining her hand to Prince Marko's; she was induced to think of marriage. An illness laid her prostrate; she contemplated ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

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