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claustration

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From Latin clōstra (“lock, enclosure”).

noun claustrations

  1. countable, uncountable 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
  2. countable, uncountable A method used by emperors to keep their harems and to guarantee their virginity.

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@misc{claustration_2026,
  title = {claustration},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/claustration},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}