Adjective

(en adjective)

Dwelling or raised in, or as if in, cloisters; solitary.

* Hudibras

Cloistered friars and vestal nuns.

* Shenstone

In cloistered state let selfish sages dwell, / Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell.

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

naive, lacking in worldliness

Furnished with cloisters.

Adjective

(en adjective)

By oneself, solitary.

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*(Bible), (w) ii. 18

*:It is not good that the man should be alone .

*(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)

*:Alone on a wide, wide sea.

Apart from, or exclusive of, others.

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*(Richard Bentley) (1662-1742)

*:God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being.

Considered separately.

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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone , without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

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Without equal.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-23, author= Ian Traynor

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(lb) Unique; rare; matchless.

:(Shakespeare)