Cloistral

Word CLOISTRAL
Character 9
Hyphenation clois tral
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Cloistral"

What do we mean by cloistral?

Of, relating to, or suggesting a cloister; secluded. adjective

Living in a cloister. adjective

Of or pertaining to a cloister; of the nature of a cloister; belonging to or dwelling in a cloister.

Secluded; retired.

Of, pertaining to, or confined in, a cloister; recluse. adjective

Of, pertaining to, or living in a cloister. adjective

Sheltered from the world; monastic. adjective

Secluded. adjective

Of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows adjective

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The word "cloistral" in example sentences

A kind of cloistral quietude pervaded the place; the devotees who came in spoke in low voices, as if in a confessional, slipped their purchases into their bags furtively, and went off with downcast eyes. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)

Who does not feel, when following Browne into his study or his garden, that here is a kind of cloistral retreat from the common places of the outside world, that the handsome man is a true gentleman and a noble friend, and that his best clothes are his every-day wear? ❋ Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle (1864)

Started but did not finish: 4 (4.2%) … all distinterested lovers of books, will always look to [literature], as to all other fine art, for a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from a certain vulgarity in the actual world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After sounding the profound cloistral silence, she seemed to be listening to remote, inarticulate revelations of the life of passion, which accounts feelings as of higher value than things. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is this capacity, I believe, that promotes Borges so far above the level of the exotic antiquarian, the obsessed bibliophile, the cloistral mapmaker, the crazed pedant, and the unreliable editor: diverting roles that he vastly enjoyed and at which he excelled. ❋ Unknown (2004)

My own room, if it interests you to know, is somewhat cloistral and narrow, but it looks straight over the lawns to the hill-rise and the woods beyond. ❋ Unknown (2004)

We have now only four boys of tender age among us, two of them not committed to the cloistral life, but here to be educated. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1983)

With both the secular and the cloistral law directing, the search did not take long, and was fruitless. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1982)

Perhaps the sounds that measured out the cloistral day were able to reach some quiet core of habit even within the sufferer's disrupted being, for at the note of the bell for Prime he fell suddenly quiet, and his eyelids fluttered and strove to open, but closed again wincingly against even this subdued light. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1982)

They had had to amend their ways, however, since Abbot Radulfus had taken over the rudder of this cloistral vessel, for he was a man who brooked no slipshod dealings, and would have all his crew as meticulous as himself. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1981)

Sometimes he had fled in spirit to the sweet seclusion of the cloistral life at San Lazaro. ❋ Various (N/A)

Reuben followed him into the cloistral odors and shadows of the sitting-room. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)

They exhaled a special cloistral odor of their own, as if they had been long imprisoned. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)

Until now the monk had sought cloistral solitude in order to escape from the world, and through penance and prayer and contemplation to work out his own salvation. ❋ Philip Van Ness Myers (N/A)

Again, thousands of the crusaders, returning broken in spirits and in health, sought an asylum in cloistral retreats, and endowed the establishments that they entered with all their worldly goods. ❋ Philip Van Ness Myers (N/A)

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