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recluse

adj
/ɹɪˈkluːs/

Etymology

From Old French reclus, past participle of reclure, from Latin reclūdere (“to disclose, to open”), from re- + claudō (“close”).

  1. derived from reclūdō — “to disclose, to open”
  2. derived from reclus

Definitions

  1. Sequestered

    Sequestered; secluded, isolated.

    • a recluse monk or hermit
    • Hermits themſelves are not recluſe enough to ſeclude that ſubtile ſpirit, Vanity: […]
    • In meditation deep, recluse / From human converse.

  2. Hidden, secret.

  3. A person who lives in self-imposed isolation or seclusion from the world, especially for…

    A person who lives in self-imposed isolation or seclusion from the world, especially for religious purposes; a hermit.

    • The recluse in the fable kept a cat to keep off the rats, and then a cow to feed the cat with milk, and a man to keep the cow and so on. My ambitions also grew like the family of the recluse.
    • First, the president’s uncle died in 1985. Kaczynski was publicly revealed as the Unabomber more than a decade later, in 1996, when he was captured; before that, he had lived as a recluse in the Montana wilderness.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. The place where a recluse dwells

      The place where a recluse dwells; a place of isolation or seclusion.

      • that day of appearance taken out of the recluse and committed to safe custody

    2. Ellipsis of recluse spider.

    3. See also Thesaurus

      See also Thesaurus:recluse

    4. To shut

      To shut; to seclude.

The neighborhood

Derived

reclusely, recluseness, brown recluse, nonrecluse, recluse spider, reclusion, reclusive, Texas recluse

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at recluse. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at recluse. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at recluse

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA