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Definition of cloistering : of Cloister

Synonyms:

blacklisting, detaching, deporting, expatriating, boycotting, banishing, evicting, sequestering, expelling, excommunicating, extraditing, segregating, cordoning, excluding, closeting, disbarring, rejecting, exiling, ousting, confining, isolating, alienating, extirpating, ostracizing, screening, separating, secluding, blackballing, insulating, removing, ejecting, eliminating

Usage examples:

• And they had proved to be not at all the idyllic creatures which these manifestations had seemed to prophesy, but a pair of very interfering old ladies with a manner of over- ruling Mary's gentle mother, brow- beating her genial father and cloistering herself. - "New Faces", Myra Kelly.