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claustrations

claustrations is the plural of claustration.

Meaning of claustration

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.

Questions about claustrations

What is claustrations the plural of?
Claustrations is the plural of claustration.

Words near claustrations in the dictionary

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

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