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Recluse
//ɹɪˈkluːs// adj, noun, verb
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Sequestered; secluded, isolated. archaic
"a recluse monk or hermit"
- 2 Hidden, secret. archaic
Adjective
- 1 withdrawn from society; seeking solitude wordnet
Noun
- 1 A person who lives in self-imposed isolation or seclusion from the world, especially for religious purposes; a hermit. archaic
"The recluse in the fable kept a cat to keep off the rats, and then a cow to feed the cat with milk, and a man to keep the cow and so on. My ambitions also grew like the family of the recluse."
- 2 one who lives in solitude wordnet
- 3 The place where a recluse dwells; a place of isolation or seclusion. archaic, obsolete
"that day of appearance taken out of the recluse and committed to safe custody"
- 4 Ellipsis of recluse spider. US, abbreviation, alt-of, archaic, ellipsis
- 5 See also Thesaurus:recluse archaic
Verb
- 1 To shut; to seclude. archaic, obsolete, transitive
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Old French reclus, past participle of reclure, from Latin reclūdere (“to disclose, to open”), from re- + claudō (“close”).
Etymology 2
From Old French reclus, past participle of reclure, from Latin reclūdere (“to disclose, to open”), from re- + claudō (“close”).
Etymology 3
From Old French reclus, past participle of reclure, from Latin reclūdere (“to disclose, to open”), from re- + claudō (“close”).
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