cloistered

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cloistered (comparative more cloistered, superlative most cloistered)

Dwelling or raised in, or as if in, cloisters; solitary.
- 1662, [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: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
  Cloistered friars and vestal nuns.
- 1741, William Shenstone, The Judgment of Hercules:
  In cloister'd state let selfish sages dwell, / Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell.
Isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence.
- 2023 July 9, Alexandra Jacobs, “Grazed and Confused: In ‘The Vegan,’ a Guilty Hedge Funder Eats His Feelings”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:
  […] “The Vegan” is a less cloistered book, with bigger, more universal themes.
Naive, lacking in worldliness.
Furnished with cloisters.
- 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:
  both the Greeks and Romans […] had commonly two cloiſtered open Courts, one serving for the Womens ſide, and the other for the Men

isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence

furnished with cloisters

cloistered