cloistered

comparative more cloistered · superlative most cloistered

1. Dwelling or raised in, or as if in, cloisters; solitary.

   Cloistered friars and vestal nuns.

   1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC

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   In cloister'd state let selfish sages dwell, / Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell.

   1741, William Shenstone, The Judgment of Hercules

2. Isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence.

   […]“The Vegan” is a less cloistered book, with bigger, more universal themes.

   2023 July 9, Alexandra Jacobs, “Grazed and Confused: In ‘The Vegan,’ a Guilty Hedge Funder Eats His Feelings”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

3. Naive, lacking in worldliness.
4. Furnished with cloisters.

   both the Greeks and Romans […]had commonly two cloiſtered open Courts, one serving for the Womens ſide, and the other for the Men

   1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of cloister