The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cloister \Clois"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cloistered; p. pr. & vb. n. Cloistering.] To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.
None among them are thought worthy to be styled
religious persons but those that cloister themselves up
in a monastery.
--Sharp.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of cloister English)
Usage examples of "cloistering".
Gibbs works for Wherry, and you met with him for many hours this afternoondon't think your long cloistering passed unnoticed, JudithI wonder why you ask me these things.
Pressures Deymorin didn't deal with, cloistering himself off in the country the way he did.
He came to the altar and knelt before it, and all the fear and the doubt which he had been cloistering within his heart came pouring out, an undertide to prayer.
Some honor their god with peaceful worship, or by cloistering themselves, or dedicating their lives to helping the less fortunate.
They seemed to stand out in the crowd, the human noticed with a grimace, as he observed several finely clothed men and women cloistering at the end of the hall less than twenty feet away.