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Definition of Seclusiveness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seclusiveness
Literary usage of Seclusiveness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mind and Its Disorders: A Text-book for Students and Practitioners by William Henry Butter Stoddart (1908)
"... SECLUSIVENESs. from the onset of the disease ; their activity is characterized
by mannerisms, negativism, echopraxia. and echolalia. ..."
2. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1870)
"Scarcely a quarter of a century has passed since the Chinese wall of seclusiveness,
self-conceit, and contemptuous hate of foreigners began to be broken ..."
3. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1870)
"Scarcely a quarter of a century has passed since the Chinese wall of seclusiveness,
self-conceit, and contemptuous hate of foreigners began to be broken ..."
4. The Kingdom of Evils: Psychiatric Social Work Presented in One Hundred Case by Elmer Ernest Southard, Mary Cromwell Jarrett (1922)
"Abstracting, for the moment, from the difficulties of the rest of the family,
let us consider the situation depicted in marital discord, seclusiveness, ..."
5. Russian Short Stories, Ed. for School Use by Harry Christian Schweikert (1919)
"Their religion went hand in hand with a spirit of contentment and seclusiveness,
cutting off all intercourse with other nations. ..."
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