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• v  surround with a cloister, as of a garden
• v  surround with a cloister
• v  seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister
  She cloistered herself in the office
• s  of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
• s  providing privacy or seclusion
  the cloistered academic world of books

• cloister
• cloistral
• conventual
• monastic
• monastical
• reclusive
• secluded
• sequestered

News & Articles

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• Cloistered nun said to hold record of 86 years in monastery dies in Spain
  Cloistered nun said to hold record of 86 years in monastery dies in Spain
  June 12, 2013 - Washington Post
• Cloistered Nun: 86 Years Of Monastery Living A World Record
  A cloistered nun with 86 years of service to her monastery has died. The AP reports that Sister Teresita Barajuen has died at the age of 105. She is believed to hold the world record for years of being cloistered …
  June 12, 2013 - WebProNews
• Cloistered nun dies after serving for 86 years
  By GABRIELLE LEVY, UPI.com A Spanish nun who was believed to hold the world record for longest-serving cloistered nun has died at the age of 105.
  June 12, 2013 - UPI

Quotes

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• Ben Mendelsohn in Sydney Morning Herald
  It's such a cloistered family,Mendelsohn says. "They're so tight it's almost unbearable in a lot of ways. They're so ruled over by the Smurf character [Weaver] and the Pope character. You just want to find a way of making that very...
• Pope Benedict XVI in AsiaNews.it
  At the conclusion of his homily, Benedict XVI asked the "cloistered monasteries and religious communities in Africa and spread all over the world, parishes and movements, the sick and suffering" to accompany with prayer the work of the Synod...