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Definition of Recluses
1. recluse [n] - See also: recluse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recluses
Literary usage of Recluses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages by Edward Lewes Cutts (1872)
"But the recluses of more modern days were not content to quote John the Egyptian
... As the Carmelite friars claimed Elijah, so the recluses, at least the ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The recluses only in part affiliated with Benedictine or other cloisters; a
Classes of system of lay recluses existed, inde- recluses. pendent of the orders ..."
3. Women of Christianity, exemplary for acts of piety and charity by Julia Kavanagh (1852)
"recluses—Female Relatives or Friends of the Greek Fathers—Christian ... Much that
now seems exaggerated in all that is told of those penitents and recluses, ..."
4. Proceedings by National Baptist Educational Convention (1872)
"recluses in this bustling age are as rare as ghosts. Our theological students
are in the very midst of a busy world. They are in society, in Sabbath-schools ..."
5. Italy: With Sketches of Spain and Portugal by William Beckford (1835)
"... his recluses. —Cheerful funeral.—Refreshing ramble to the heights of Penha Verde.
August 29th, 1787. IT was furiously hot, and I trifled away the whole ..."
6. France Under Mazarin: With a Review of the Administration of Richelieu by James Breck Perkins (1886)
"... it kindled a fresh zeal, and was an important aid in bringing to the Port
Royal many of the recluses who began to seek there a modern Thebais. ..."
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