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from The Century Dictionary.
- In a retired manner; in solitude or privacy.
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Examples
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He lived very retiredly, yet went often to the theatre.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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Charles I: lived poor and retiredly in Wales, but was once or twice more imprisoned: -- moved to Lisburn and in 1660 was made Bishop of Down and Connor, -- with Dromore, where he was buried, in addition.
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Sir Hugh's intention was to live there as retiredly as possible; nevertheless, even then his family amounted to twenty persons in number.
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"In the corners of the streets," namely, that they may seem to be praying retiredly, and thus earn a twofold praise, both that they pray, and that they pray in retirement.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew 1225?-1274 1842
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He lived very retiredly, yet went often to the theatre.
The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836
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Insomuch that he tells us, [279] that "few sound parts are left uninfected with this plague of scepticism; [280] that it P. 67, as. this is an universal gangrene; [281] that there are but few that go the way of demonstration, and these are either wearied out, or else live retiredly, or despair of any remedy of these things."
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 10. 1630-1694 1820
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He lived very retiredly, yet went often to the theatre.
Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801
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Some live retiredly, spending their time in meditation, or in delivering precepts of morality to the people.
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To which he made answer saying, I marvel why such questions are asked at me, who have lived so retiredly hitherto, neither found plotting with York, France, or
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A man incorporates anger by concealing it, as Diogenes told Demosthenes, who, for fear of being seen in a tavern, withdrew himself the more retiredly into it: "The more you retire backward, the farther you enter in."
The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562
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