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Definition of Secluded

1. Adjective. Hidden from general view or use. "A secret garden"

2. Adjective. Providing privacy or seclusion. "A secluded romantic spot"

Definition of Secluded

1. Adjective. Hidden, isolated, remote. ¹

2. Verb. (past of seclude) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Secluded

1. seclude [v] - See also: seclude

Lexicographical Neighbors of Secluded

secessionist secessionists secessions sech sechium sechs seck seckel seckel pear seckels

seckle seckles secle secles secluded (current term) secludedly secludedness secludednesses secludes secluding

seclusion seclusion lodge seclusion lodges seclusion of pupil seclusionary seclusions seclusive seclusively seclusiveness

Literary usage of Secluded

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes, Ernest Alfred Benians (1907)
"members and the secluded ones, in the hope of obtaining their re admission, but both ended in disagreement. The sitting members could not pledge their ..."

2. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"How the secluded said, that they did not intend by coming in to express revenge ... That there is great likelihood that the secluded members will come in, ..."

3. A History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans by John Lingard (1829)
"CHAP. the secluded members attended his summons; 166'0 and, ... On the one hand by introducing the secluded members he had greatly advanced the cause of ..."

4. Orientalisms in Bible Lands by Edwin Wilbur Rice (1910)
"Women secluded.—The women are secluded by a religious sentiment, which is thus stated, ... In earlier times women were not so rigidly secluded. ..."

5. The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline & Fall of the by William Russell, Charles Coote (1822)
"The secluded members, encouraged by the general's declaration, went to the house ... He refused to hear them except in the presence of the secluded members; ..."

6. The History of Modern Europe: with an Account of the Decline and Fall of the by William Russell (1837)
"Feb 21 The secluded members, encouraged by the general's declaration, went to the house of commons, and entering with- out obstruction, immediately found ..."

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