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cloistered

adjective

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Wiktionary

adj

  1. Dwelling or raised in, or as if in, cloisters; solitary.

    “Cloistered friars and vestal nuns.”

    “In cloister'd state let selfish sages dwell, / Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell.”

  2. Isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence.

    “[…]“The Vegan” is a less cloistered book, with bigger, more universal themes.”

  3. Naive, lacking in worldliness.
  4. 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”

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of cloister