Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being recluse; retirement; seclusion from society.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Quality or state of being recluse.
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- noun Quality or state of being
recluse .
Etymologies
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Examples
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That direful mishap was at the bottom of his temporary recluseness.
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In pursuance of this plan we turned out of the main road, and entered a narrow one, which by its recluseness and solitude seemed to lead us into the recesses of the country.
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Aix, the capital of Provence, is very pleasantly situated in a valley, surrounded by hills, which give it an air of recluseness, and romantic retirement, without being so close as to prevent the due circulation of air.
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The town, on the whole, had an air of rusticity and recluseness which might have delighted a romantic imagination.
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Mr. Bell's ordinary life was one neither of seclusion nor of widely extended social courtesies; but of active benevolence and cheerful retirement, disfigured neither by ostentatious philanthropy nor studied recluseness.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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Because of his consistent recluseness, foregone to-night for her pleasure, Carlisle had meant rather to exhibit Mr. Canning to enraptured eyes than to subject him to a flood of undesired introductions.
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That direful mishap was at the bottom of his temporary recluseness.
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That direful mishap was at the bottom of his temporary recluseness.
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That direful mishap was at the bottom of his temporary recluseness.
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