claustration

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 of diligence and claustration?

A method used by emperors to keep their harems and to guarantee their virginity.