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Meanings of cloistral in English

Of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows.

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Usage of cloistral in English
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So she loved the cloistral feeling autumn brought with it to Welsley.
In the Wilderness
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There is nothing cloistral about the University of Chicago except its architecture.
The Real Adventure
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Raphael's mind was large; and larger by being conscious of its cloistral limitations.
Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
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Mr. Prohack, despite a cloistral lifetime at the Treasury, recognised her type immediately.
Mr. Prohack
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Gradually she became accustomed to govern her tongue, and to this cloistral silence.
The Mystery of Orcival
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But you have a cloistral disposition; you were born to live in a convent.
The Confession of a Child of the Century — Volume 2
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The old cloistral seclusion and exclusion is forever gone and new ideals are arising.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
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Her face showed smooth and saint-like between the cloistral bands.
The Helpmate
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She had not come to him out of cloistral purity, out of perfect radiancy.
The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
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Only the creepers and the great pileated woodpeckers seemed to inhabit these truly cloistral shades.
The Rules of the Game
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The growth of monasticism from the hermit stage to the cloistral life has already been described.
A Short History of Monks and Monasteries
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The other customer had the effect of causing Constance to pop up from her cloistral corner.
The Old Wives' Tale
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Sometimes he had fled in spirit to the sweet seclusion of the cloistral life at San Lazaro.
The Spinners' Book of Fiction
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And the holy man, seating himself beside the cloistral fountain under an ancient fig-tree, uttered these words:
Penguin Island
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Suddenly she was startled to find that appalling temptations found even Catherine out even in her cloistral solitude.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
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And all the time she had been here, in the midst of this cloistral silence, and perhaps often alone.
In the Wilderness
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