cloistered

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They avenged themselves to themselves for an uneasy subconsciousness of their own shortcomings by sitting in cloistered -- or, rather, pleasantly upholstered -- seclusion, and sneering at and lying about men who made them feel uncomfortable.

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  1. Furnished with cloisters; arranged in the form of a cloister. The court below is formed into a square by a corridor, having over the cheife entrance a stately cupola, covered with stone; the rest is cloistered and arch'd on pillasters of rustiq worke. Evelyn, Diary, April 1, 1644. A lovely cloistered court he found, A fountain in the midst o'erthrown and dry. William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 326.
  2. Shut up in a cloister; inhabiting a convent.
  3. Solitary; retired from the world; secret; concealed. Let those have night, that slily love t' immure Their cloister'd crimes, and sin secure. Quarles, Emblems, i. 14. Ere the bat hath flown His cloister'd flight. Shak., Macbeth, iii. 2. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd. Milton, Areopagitica, p. 18.

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  • I'm pretty well cloistered, and I suppose, books mean more than people to me anyway But writers all speak about the South being tragic. —  The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories
  • Inside the smooth gray walls, set back beneath the trees, a cloistered order commonly called the Poor Clares lead lives of silent sacrifice. —  Catholic Online > Daily Readings
  • She lived as a cloistered nun, and died at a mere twenty-four-years-old. —  ragamuffin diva
  • Following her early life as a cloistered teen surrounded by a retinue of servants and advisors all looking to influence and subvert her, the film then traces Victoria's development into the longest reigning British monarch. —  News round-up
  • Often seen as a cloistered outpost of New York City, Long Island is now becoming known for the blight of racial violence. public outcry over hate crimes on Long Island, particularly the —  RaceWire
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