claustration
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin clōstra (“lock, enclosure”).
Noun edit
claustration (countable and uncountable, plural claustrations)
- Shutting up or enclosing, usually in a religious cloister.
- A method used by emperors to keep their harems and to guarantee their virginity.
Quotations edit
- shutting up
- 1875, Henry James, Roderick Hudson, New York Edition 1909, hardcover, page 341
- He could scare find it in his heart to accuse Roderick of neglect of that function, united to him though the girl might be by a double bond; for it was natural that the inspirations of a man of genius should be both capricious and imperious, and on what plan had he ever started moreover but on that of diligence and claustration?
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
claustration f (plural claustrations)
Further reading edit
- “claustration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.