Seclusion
Seclusion
#893. Seclusion. Exclusion. -- N. seclusion, privacy; retirement;
reclusion, recess; snugness &c. adj.; delitescence[obs]; rustication, rus
in urbe[Lat]; solitude; solitariness &c. (singleness) 87; isolation;
loneliness &c. adj.; estrangement from the world, voluntary exile;
aloofness.
- cell, hermitage; convent &c. 1000; sanctum sanctorum[Lat].
- depopulation, desertion, desolation; wilderness &c. (unproductive)
169; howling wilderness; rotten borough, Old Sarum.
- exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism,
proscription; cut, cut direct; dead cut.
- inhospitality[obs], inhospitableness &c. adj.; dissociability[obs];
domesticity, Darby and Joan.
- recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite; anchoret[obs], anchorite; Simon
Stylites[obs]; troglodyte, Timon of Athens[obs], Santon[obs], solitaire,
ruralist[obs], disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, Diogenes; outcast,
Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic[obs]; wastrel, foundling, wilding[obs].
- V. be secluded , live secluded &c. adj.; keep aloof, stand, hold
oneself aloof, keep in the background, stand in the background; keep snug;
shut oneself up; deny oneself, seclude oneself creep into a corner,
rusticate, aller planter ses choux[Fr]; retire, retire from the world; take
the veil; abandon &c. 624; sport one's oak*.
- cut, cut dead; refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge; look
cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon;, repel, blackball,
excommunicate, exclude, exile, expatriate; banish, outlaw, maroon,
ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, send to Coventry, keep at arm's length,
draw a cordon round.
- depopulate; dispeople[obs], unpeople[obs].
- Adj. secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent[obs], private, bye;
out of the world, out of the way; " the world forgetting by the world
forgot " [Pope].
- snug, domestic, stay-at-home.
- unsociable; unsocial, dissocial[obs]; inhospitable, cynical,
inconversable|, unclubbable, sauvage[Fr], troglodytic.
- solitary; lonely, lonesome; isolated, single.
- estranged; unfrequented; uninhabitable, uninhabited; tenantless;
abandoned; deserted, deserted in one's utmost need; unfriended[obs];
kithless[obs], friendless, homeless; lorn[obs], forlorn, desolate.
- unvisited, unintroduced[obs], uninvited, unwelcome; under a cloud,
left to shift for oneself, derelict, outcast.
- banished &c. v.
- Phr. noli me tangere[Lat].
- " among them but not of them " [Byron]; " and homeless near a thousand
homes I stood " [Wordsworth]; far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife
[Gray]; " makes a solitude and calls it peace " [Byron]; magna civitas
magna solitudo [Lat]; " never less alone than when alone " [Rogers]; " O
sacred solitude! divine retreat! " [Young].