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Definition of Recluse
1. Noun. One who lives in solitude.
Generic synonyms: Lone Hand, Lone Wolf, Loner
Specialized synonyms: John The Baptist, St. John The Baptist
Derivative terms: Hermitic, Hermitical, Solitary
2. Adjective. Withdrawn from society; seeking solitude. "Lived an unsocial reclusive life"
Similar to: Unsocial
Derivative terms: Reclusiveness, Withdrawnness
Definition of Recluse
1. a. Shut up; sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life.
2. n. A person who lives in seclusion from intercourse with the world, as a hermit or monk; specifically, one of a class of secluded devotees who live in single cells, usually attached to monasteries.
3. v. t. To shut up; to seclude.
Definition of Recluse
1. Adjective. (''now rare'') Sequestered; secluded, isolated. ¹
2. Adjective. (''now rare'') Hidden, secret. ¹
3. Noun. A person who lives in self-imposed isolation or seclusion from the world, especially for religious purposes; a hermit. ¹
4. Noun. (obsolete) The place where a recluse dwells; a place of isolation or seclusion. ¹
5. Noun. (American English) A brown recluse spider. ¹
6. Verb. (obsolete) To shut; to seclude. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Recluse
1. one who lives in solitude and seclusion [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recluse
Literary usage of Recluse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. La Mort D'Arthure: The History of King Arthur and of the Knights of the by Thomas Malory (1858)
"How sir Percivale came unto a recluse and asked her ... So when the recluse heard
his name, shee made passing great joy of him, ..."
2. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life by John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1853)
"SIR,—I received by the last post a sheet subscribed " A recluse Man," inclosed
with another in print, and have read both with feelings and reflections, ..."
3. Mind (1902)
"THE recluse. BY G. CAMPBELL CREELMAN. The hermit lives in the lonely wood ; His
home is a cave ... And here the recluse dwells alone To aid the world by the ..."
4. La Mort D'Arthure: The History of King Arthur and of the Knights of the by Thomas Malory (1866)
"How sir Percivale came unto a recluse and asked her ... sir Percivale returned
againe unto the recluse, where he deemed to have tidings of that knight which ..."
5. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff (1889)
"But no one could say this of the virtues of the recluse. ... The recluse requires
both a good condition of body, and a place suitable for his course of life ..."
6. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"The mase, form recias also occurs, as ' the redas frère,' i e. thè recluse friar;
Fifty Earl. E. Wills, ed. Furnivall, p. 7,1.31. And again: 'the reclus of ..."
7. Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, &c.: And of a Cruise in the Black Sea by Sir Adolphus Slade (1833)
"Then fixing his eyes again on the recluse, who edged closer to me, ... It was
now the recluse's turn. " In that case," he said—I was surprised at his ..."
8. Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Falconer by John Aikin (1838)
"It may be proper to state whence the poem, of which the Excursion is a part,
derives its title of the recluse.—Several years ago, when the ..."
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