Claustration
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Claustration is a noun meaning Shutting up or enclosing, usually in a religious cloister.
Meaning
Shutting up or enclosing, usually in a religious cloister.
More Meanings
- A method used by emperors to keep their harems and to guarantee their virginity.
Example Sentences
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?
Word Forms
- claustrations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include clamping, closure, clinch, enclavation, enclosure, perclose.
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