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SECLUSION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of secluding yourself from others
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("seclusion" is a kind of...):
separation (the social act of separating or parting company)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "seclusion"):
cocooning (retreating to the seclusion of your home (as for privacy or escape))
Derivation:
seclude (keep away from others)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others
Synonyms:
privacy; privateness; seclusion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("seclusion" is a kind of...):
reclusiveness (a disposition to prefer seclusion or isolation)
Context examples:
But he insisted on his own privacy and self-seclusion, and so thoroughly ignored Dick that that good-natured creature finally gave him up and scarcely took as much interest in him as in the hitching-post near the stable.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Farther off were hills: not so lofty as those round Lowood, nor so craggy, nor so like barriers of separation from the living world; but yet quiet and lonely hills enough, and seeming to embrace Thornfield with a seclusion I had not expected to find existent so near the stirring locality of Millcote.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
In America, as everyone knows, girls early sign the declaration of independence, and enjoy their freedom with republican zest, but the young matrons usually abdicate with the first heir to the throne and go into a seclusion almost as close as a French nunnery, though by no means as quiet.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Many a time has she said so; and yet I am no advocate for entire seclusion.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
There is the secret of that Cornish seclusion which people have marvelled at.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He came out of his seclusion, renewed relations with his friends, became once more their familiar guest and entertainer; and whilst he had always been known for charities, he was now no less distinguished for religion.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Mr. Elton had just joined them, and his wife was exclaiming, Oh! you have found us out at last, have you, in our seclusion?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He made no advances to us, however, nor would we have dreamed of doing so to him, as it was well known that it was his love of seclusion which caused him to spend the greater part of the intervals between his journeys in a small bungalow buried in the lonely wood of Beauchamp Arriance.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The visit afforded her many pleasant recollections the next day; and all that she might be supposed to have lost on the side of dignified seclusion, must be amply repaid in the splendour of popularity.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
These days of confinement would have been, but for her private perplexities, remarkably comfortable, as such seclusion exactly suited her brother, whose feelings must always be of great importance to his companions; and he had, besides, so thoroughly cleared off his ill-humour at Randalls, that his amiableness never failed him during the rest of his stay at Hartfield.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
