cloistered
adjective
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adj
- 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.”
- Isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence.
“[…]“The Vegan” is a less cloistered book, with bigger, more universal themes.”
- Naive, lacking in worldliness.
- 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
- simple past and past participle of cloister