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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
recluse
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Hudson became a recluse after her husband's death.
▪ If you don't get out more, you're going to turn into a recluse.
▪ Old Mr Grimes was a bad-tempered recluse, rarely seen in the town.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He had been a recluse, completely isolated from the world, for the last ten years.
▪ He was a natural recluse who found all human relationships difficult.
▪ I became more and more of a recluse, avoiding our old haunts for fear of running into him.
▪ Many people become human relations victims over and over again without becoming hardened, insensitive or recluses.
▪ She turned into a recluse or something?
▪ The recluse is shy, only biting when threatened.
▪ They may owe their intact status to the fact that they belong to a recluse.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recluse

Recluse \Re*cluse"\, n. [F. reclus, LL. reclusus. See Recluse, a.]

  1. 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.

  2. The place where a recluse dwells. [Obs.]
    --Foxe.

Recluse

Recluse \Re*cluse"\, v. t. To shut up; to seclude. [Obs.]

Recluse

Recluse \Re*cluse"\ (r[-e]*kl[=u]s"), a. [F. reclus, L. reclusus, from recludere, reclusum, to unclose, open, in LL., to shut up. See Close.] Shut up, sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life

In meditation deep, recluse From human converse.
--J. Philips.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
recluse

c.1200, "person shut up from the world for purposes of religious meditation," from Old French reclus (fem. recluse) "hermit, recluse," also "confinement, prison; convent, monastery," noun use of reclus (adj.) "shut up," from Late Latin reclusus, past participle of recludere "to shut up, enclose" (but in classical Latin "to throw open"), from Latin re-, intensive prefix, + claudere "to shut" (see close (v.)).

Wiktionary
recluse
  1. 1 (''now rare'') sequestered; secluded, isolated. 2 (''now rare'') hidden, secret. n. 1 A person who lives in self-imposed isolation or seclusion from the world, especially for religious purposes; a hermit. 2 (context obsolete English) The place where a recluse dwells; a place of isolation or seclusion. 3 (context US English) A brown recluse spider. v

  2. (context obsolete English) To shut; to seclude.

WordNet
recluse
  1. adj. withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial reclusive life" [syn: reclusive, withdrawn]

  2. n. one who lives in solitude [syn: hermit, solitary, solitudinarian, troglodyte]

Wikipedia
Recluse

A recluse is a person who lives in voluntary seclusion from the public and society. The word is from the Latin recludere, which means "shut up" or "sequester". Historically, the word referred to a hermit's total isolation from the world. Examples are Symeon of Trier, who lived within the great Roman gate Porta Nigra with permission from the Archbishop of Trier, or Theophan the Recluse, the 19th-century Russian Orthodox monk who was later glorified as a saint. Famous recluses have included Emily Brontë, J.D. Salinger, Emily Dickinson, Stanley Kubrick, Howard Hughes, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Greta Garbo.

Recluse (disambiguation)

Recluse may refer to:

  • Recluse, one who hides from the public
  • Recluse, Wyoming, town in the United States
  • Recluse spider, a genus of venomous spiders

:* Brown recluse spider, a particularly infamous member species native to North America

  • Recluse butterflies of the genus Caenides
  • "The Recluse" (Plan B song), a 2010 single from the British artist Plan B
  • Recluse literature, a Japanese literary movement

Usage examples of "recluse".

To this arrangement the recluse assented, and Emily prepared for the ball with a melancholy recollection of the consequences which grew out of the last she had attended--melancholy at the fate of Digby, and pleasure at the principles manifested by Denbigh, on the occasion.

CHAPTER XVIII The rumour circulated that Sir Austin Feverel, the recluse of Raynham, the rank misogynist, the rich baronet, was in town, looking out a bride for his only son and uncorrupted heir.

Interestingly, even though Shastri was a really top-level scientist, he immediately recognized that his enhanced abilities under the drug would be most extended and useful in a political context, he ran for Parliament and spent three years forming a brilliant political career, then dropped it all and went to Israel, becoming a recluse to study and write.

Suydam was a lettered recluse of ancient Dutch family, possessed originally of barely independent means, and inhabiting the spacious but ill-preserved mansion which his grandfather had built in Flatbush when that village was little more than a pleasant group of colonial cottages surrounding the steepled and ivy-clad Reformed Church with its iron-railed yard of Netherlandish gravestones.

Bell of the stories told in Amman the eccentric English recluse with the appalling wreckage of a face who lived a life of asceticism and alcohol eight hundred feet below sea level, in a town that was ten thousand years old, reading and drinking and refining his soul in the heavy sun of Jericho.

Most recluses or back to nature sorts tended to have cats or dogs for company and conversation, but seemed bedworthy Michael lived solo.

To this arrangement the recluse assented, and Emily prepared for the ball with a melancholy recollection of the consequences which grew out of the last she had attended--melancholy at the fate of Digby, and pleasure at the principles manifested by Denbigh, on the occasion.

While she occupied the rear apartment that looked out onto a warren of postage-stamp-sized backyards, a recluse by the name of Debra Engler resided in the front.

Would you be satisfied to spend your lives quietly in some scenic place in Gifu, and become early recluses in a large palace, with your meals provided by your host?

Jabez Bowen came from Rehoboth and opened his apothecary shop across the Great Bridge at the Sign of the Unicorn and Mortar, there was ceaseless talk of the drugs, acids, and metals that the taciturn recluse incessantly bought or ordered from him.

A young Indian prince, named Sakya Muni, afflicted by the miseries of human life which he beheld, cast aside his wealth and his royal destiny, became a recluse, and devoted his life to the study of religion.

Skirting the Vale is the shortest and least traveled way to the Recluse, so naturally the dwarf would take you that way.

Marx himself was too simpleminded a recluse and too full of the validity of his remoter generalizations, and the way in which the rapid integration of capital in Trusts and Kartels was confirming them, to be conscious of the void himself.

Poole upon the doorstep and surrounded by the air and sounds of the open city, rather than to be admitted into that house of voluntary bondage, and to sit and speak with its inscrutable recluse.

His name was Cowan Phillips and he was the chief designer of computer-game software for a company called Mute Corp, run and owned by Remington Mute, zillionaire recluse who had made his zillions from the computer games that he, Cowan Phillips, designed.