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PRONUNCIATION OF CLAUSTRATION

claustration  [klɔːˈstreɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CLAUSTRATION

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adjective
verb
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Claustration is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CLAUSTRATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

claustration

Enclosed religious orders

Enclosed religious orders of the Christian churches have solemn vows with a strict separation from the affairs of the external world. The term cloistered is synonymous with enclosed. The enclosure is regulated by Catholic church law. Rather strictly enforced in the past, it has taken nowadays more a symbolic value of separation from the world. The stated purpose for such enclosure is to prevent distraction from prayer and the religious life. Enclosed religious orders of men include the Benedictine monks, Bethlehem monks, Carthusian monks, Cistercian monks, Hieronymite monks, Trappist monks, and some Carmelite monks branches, and enclosed religious orders of women include the Augustinian nuns, Order of Bethlehem nuns, Carmelite nuns, Carthusian nuns, Conceptionist nuns, Minim nuns, Poor Clare nuns, Visitationist nuns, monasteries of Benedictine nuns, Dominican nuns and some Ursulines.

Definition of claustration in the English dictionary

The definition of claustration in the dictionary is the act of confining to a small space.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CLAUSTRATION


administration
ədˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃən
arbitration
ˌɑːbɪˈtreɪʃən
castration
ˌkæˈstreɪʃən
concentration
ˌkɒnsənˈtreɪʃən
demonstration
ˌdɛmənˈstreɪʃən
filtration
fɪlˈtreɪʃən
frustration
frʌˈstreɪʃən
illustration
ˌɪləˈstreɪʃən
infiltration
ˌɪnfɪlˈtreɪʃən
maladministration
ˌmælədˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃən
ministration
ˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃən
nitration
naɪˈtreɪʃən
orchestration
ˌɔːkɪsˈtreɪʃən
penetration
ˌpɛnɪˈtreɪʃən
perpetration
ˌpɜːpɪˈtreɪʃən
preregistration
ˌpriːrɛdʒɪˈstreɪʃən
registration
ˌrɛdʒɪˈstreɪʃən
sequestration
ˌsiːkwɛˈstreɪʃən
titration
taɪˈtreɪʃən
ultrafiltration
ˌʌltrəfɪlˈtreɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CLAUSTRATION

claucht
Claude
Claude Lorrain
Claudel
claudication
Claudius
Claudius II
clausal
clause
Clausewitz
Clausius
claustral
claustrophilia
claustrophobe
claustrophobia
claustrophobic
claustrophobically
claustrum
clausula
clausular

WORDS THAT END LIKE CLAUSTRATION

accreditation
action
animation
application
association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation
federation

Synonyms and antonyms of claustration in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «claustration» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CLAUSTRATION

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The translations of claustration from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «claustration» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

claustration
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

enjaulamiento
570 millions of speakers

English

claustration
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

claustration
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

claustration
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

claustration
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cativeiro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

claustration
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

claustration
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Claustration
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

folgende Zeiträume
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

claustration
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

claustration
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Claustration
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

claustration
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

claustration
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्लॉस्ट्रेशन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Claustration
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

clausura
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

claustration
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

claustration
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

claustrare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

έγκλειστες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

claustration
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

instängda
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

claustration
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of claustration

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CLAUSTRATION»

The term «claustration» is used very little and occupies the 165.436 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CLAUSTRATION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «claustration» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «claustration» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about claustration

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLAUSTRATION»

Discover the use of claustration in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to claustration and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in ...
But recent research has demonstrated that many women in premodern Europe lived as contemplatives in monastic communities, often without taking solemn vows or enduring claustration. In other words, many women who took up residence ...
Lori Rachelle Meeks, 2010
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Women of God and Arms: Female Spirituality and Political ...
The imposition of strict claustration for nuns was, not surprisingly, a chief element in her monastic reform program. She and Ferdinand appointed visitors and, in instructing their appointees, the monarchs “particularly insisted on the introduction ...
Nancy Bradley Warren, 2011
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Religious Life in Normandy, 1050-1300: Space, Gender and ...
claustration was interpreted differently for men and women.12 Concern about the place of religious women in society and the Church was raised as early as the fourth century in the letters of St Jerome (c.350-c.420). The sixth-century rule for ...
Leonie V. Hicks, 2007
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The Convent and the Community in Late Medieval England: ...
He claims that Boniface VIII's Periculoso, the decree which officially enforced enclosure of nuns, was never meant to apply to monks who had in any case long abandoned claustration. Noreen Hunt, "Enclosure (II)," Cistercian Studies 22 ( 1987) ...
Marilyn Oliva, 1998
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Gender in Early Modern German History
The whole act seems to have come to pass propitiously in both places.65 This passage is simultaneously about and not about claustration, since Hueber's account, not unlike the Putrich chronicle, suggests that cloistering was above all an ...
Ulinka Rublack, 2002
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Despotism and Differential Reproduction: A Darwinian View of ...
Mildred Dickemann in 1981 first explicated the facts of veiling and claustration in Darwinian terms. As she made clear, cases of female seclusion do correspond to hypergynous competition for high status, i.e., highly investing, males. Husbands ...
Laura L. Betzig, 1986
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Christina of Markyate: A Twelfth-century Holy Woman
Monks and secular clerics pursued similar lines of thought and discovered that claustration was the answer to these burdensome, numerous and potentially polluting and polluted religious women. These concerns culminated in 1298, when ...
Samuel Fanous, Henrietta Leyser, 2005
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Et Li Estrange Et Li Prive: Privacy and Community in the ...
I would like to look, finally, at two aspects of monastic spatial organization which are essentially two sides of the same coin-claustration and the hierarchical organization of spaces. While the practice of claustration appears at first glance to ...
Christine Schellenberg Thuau, 2008
9
Small Ruminant Research and Development in Africa: ...
Mais la claustration permanente semble constituer la tendance générale. Toutefois, contre toute attente, des pertes de poids de l'ordre de 15 à 20% sont enregistrées pendant la saison des pluies. Les difficultés rencontrées pour alimenter ...
African Small Ruminant Research Network. Conference, Sahr H. B. Lebbie, E. Kagwini, 1996
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Monks & Nuns, Saints & Outcasts: Religion in Medieval ...
It is also possible that claustration at Schaftlarn was tightened after the completion of the earlier volumes. Sophia and Adalbertus copied Clm 17052 and 17053 between 1165 and 1170, while Clm 17054 may have been completed as late as ...
Lester K. Little, Sharon A. Farmer, Barbara H. Rosenwein, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLAUSTRATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term claustration is used in the context of the following news items.
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Chacun son chez-soi
Leur claustration volontaire produit un résultat tangible et leur confère un statut prestigieux […] », note Mona Chollet. Elle soulève combien ... «Le Devoir, Jul 15»
2
Langage, son et voix dans les Carnets de captivité d'Emmanuel …
En effet, selon Levinas, « la respiration est transcendance en guise de dé-claustration » (Levinas, 1978 : 228), une ouverture vers l'autrui, une ... «Revues.org, Dec 14»
3
THE HIJAB AND ITS FACES
Therefore, the act of wearing it is often supposed to result in a loss of 'civil personality' and forced claustration – as suffered by 19th century ... «Daily Star Online, Aug 13»
4
Ibadat el Chouyoukhs 7 : Le voile païen des femmes islamistes.
En arabie pré-islamique, il semble que les femmes de bonne naissance devaient porter un voile, en lien avec la claustration : »voile et litière ... «Nawaat, Dec 12»
5
Caught in the twilight of Ceausescu's Romania
... an almost physical sensation of claustration; and something else: exhilaration, a feeling for the possible, something expanding around me. «Washington Post, Aug 12»
6
Des cas d'"hikikomori" en France
Néanmoins, "l'hospitalisation est nécessaire lorsque la claustration est trop installée et invalidante", souligne le docteur Guedj-Bourdiau. «Le Monde, Jun 12»
7
The Art And Science Of Going Nude
Cross-cultural patterns of dress range from penis sheaths for males to full-body cloth claustration for females, with lots of variation at every turn. «NPR, May 12»
8
This Is Not a Film, Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb (U)
... Panahi is at once expressing solidarity with people like the young woman, and describing his own claustration. He also shows clips from his ... «The Independent, Mar 12»
9
Ordaining a Woman Equals Raping a Child
The decrees of the Council of Trent of the 1560s, re-imposing claustration on all existing houses for women and any new foundations, meant ... «RH Reality Check, Jul 10»
10
How the Dreyfus Affair Explains Sarkozy's Burqa Ban
As historian Caroline Ford has shown, "forced claustration" became a legal cause célèbre in the 19th century, as lawyers denounced the loss of ... «Foreign Policy, May 10»

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