Cloistering [verb]
Definition of Cloistering:
isolate, hide
Synonyms of Cloistering:
● Cloister
● Embargo
● Closet
● Separate
● Conceal
● Screen
● Retire
● Cover
● Immure
● Boycott
● Blockade
● Enclose
● Withdraw
● Confine
● Evict
● Shut off
Opposite/Antonyms of Cloistering:
Sentence/Example of Cloistering:
The most probable explanation of the customs of veiling and cloistering is that they are due to the superstition of the evil eye.
The custom of cloistering women has spread, within historic times, from some point in central Asia.
Later, in the Euphrates Valley, we find the custom of cloistering amongst the highest classes.
Often the cloistering trees along the roadside made his chapel, and the blue sky was the only roof between him and heaven.
This cloistering-in of his mind was the early and constant peculiarity of his life.
But Jefferson might have spared his pains to dispose of Marshall by cloistering him on the State bench.
Yet it occurred to George, as he looked at her, that her cloistering had accomplished no change.