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claustration

claustration noun: shutting up or enclosing, usually in a religious cloister.

Noun

claustration (countable and uncountable, plural claustrations)

  1. Shutting up or enclosing, usually in a religious cloister.
    • 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...1875, Henry James, Roderick Hudson, New York Edition 1909, hardcover, page 341
  2. A method used by emperors to keep their harems and to guarantee their virginity.

Forms of claustration

pluralclaustrations

Origin of claustration

From Latin clōstra (“lock, enclosure”).

Words formed from claustration

Questions about claustration

What does claustration mean?
Claustration means shutting up or enclosing, usually in a religious cloister.
What part of speech is claustration?
Claustration is a noun.
What is the plural of claustration?
The plural of claustration is claustrations.

Words near claustration in the dictionary

  1. clausthalite
  2. clausthalites
  3. claustra
  4. claustral
  5. claustrally
  6. claustration
  7. claustrations
  8. claustrofobia
  9. claustrophile
  10. claustrophiles
  11. claustrophilia

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