Reclusive vs Cloister - What's the difference?
reclusive | cloister |
Of, characterized by, or preferring privacy and isolation; secluded.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=December 19
, author=Kerry Brown
, title=Kim Jong-il obituary
, work=The Guardian
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A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:
# such arcade in a monastery
# such arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion
A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
(figuratively) The monastic life
To become a Roman Catholic religious.
To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
To provide with (a) cloister(s).
To protect or isolate.
As an adjective reclusive
is of, characterized by, or preferring privacy and isolation; secluded.As a noun cloister is
a covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially.As a verb cloister is
to become a Roman Catholic religious.reclusive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Kim Jong-il, who has died aged 69, was the general secretary of the Workers party of Korea, and head of the military in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). He was one of the most reclusive and widely condemned national leaders of the late 20th and early 21st century, leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically broken and divided from South Korea.}}
- And if it sort not well, you may conceal her,
- As best befits her wounded reputation,
- In some reclusive and religious life,
- Out of all eyes, tongues, minds and injuries.
Synonyms
* hermit-like * withdrawncloister
English
Alternative forms
* cloistre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cloistralVerb
(en verb)- ''The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it