Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Confinement in a cloister.
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- noun Shutting up or
enclosing , usually referring to a religiouscloister . - noun A method used by emperors to keep their
harems and to guarantee theirvirginity .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As to whether the "claustration" to which I condemn myself may be a
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As to whether the "claustration" to which I condemn myself may be a
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So, given the nineteenth century, we are opposed, as a general proposition, and among all peoples, in Asia as well as in Europe, in India as well as in Turkey, to ascetic claustration.
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As to whether the “claustration” to which I condemn myself may be a “state of joy,” no.
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And to my silence as to the causes of her claustration, was it not comprehensible that she should correspond with a similar and constant silence as to her perpetual desires, her innumerable memories and hopes?
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I was less sad than usual because the melancholy of her expression, the sort of claustration which the startling hue of her gown set between her and the rest of the world, made her seem somehow lonely and unhappy, and this comforted me.
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A monastery will do that too; but in the unholy claustration of a jail you are thrown back wholly upon yourself -- for God and Faith are not there.
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Marriage with Fyne was certainly a change but only to another kind of claustration.
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A monastery will do that too; but in the unholy claustration of a jail you are thrown back wholly upon yourself -- for God and Faith are not there.
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Marriage with Fyne was certainly a change but only to another kind of claustration.
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