Crossword clues for seclusion
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seclusion \Se*clu"sion\, n. [See Seclude.] The act of secluding, or the state of being secluded; separation from society or connection; a withdrawing; privacy; as, to live in seclusion.
O blest seclusion from a jarring world, which he, thus
occupied, enjoys!
--Cowper.
Syn: Solitude; separation; withdrawment; retirement; privacy. See Solitude.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Medieval Latin seclusionem (nominative seclusio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin secludere (see seclude).
Wiktionary
n. 1 the act of seclude, shutting out or keeping apart 2 the state of being secluded or shut out, as from company, society, the world, etc. 3 retirement 4 privacy 5 solitude 6 a secluded, isolated or private place 7 (cx meteorology English) mature phase of the extratropical cyclone lifecycle
WordNet
n. the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others [syn: privacy, privateness]
the act of secluding yourself from others
Wikipedia
Seclusion is the act of secluding, i.e. shutting out or keeping apart from society, or the state of being secluded, or a place that facilitates it (a secluded place). A person, a couple, or a larger group may go to a secluded place for privacy, or because the place is quiet. Seclusion of a single person is also called solitude.
Seclusion is the third album by the Scottish rock band Aereogramme. The album artwork was created by Aaron Turner.
Seclusion is shutting out, or keeping apart, from company, society, the world etc.
Seclusion may also refer to:
- Solitude
- Seclusion (Penumbra album), 2003
- Seclusion (Aereogramme album), 2004
- Warm seclusion, the mature phase of an extratropical cyclone
- Seclusion policy, the former foreign relations policy of Japan whereby nobody could enter or leave the country
Usage examples of "seclusion".
It looked as if this alated race had come out of their two centuries of seclusion and were deliberately making war upon humanity, on white women!
I had no care upon my mind, for my small fortune, along with the rent of my field, was more than sufficient for my maintenance in the almost anchoretic seclusion in which I intended to live, and hence I had every advantage for the more definite projection and prosecution of a work which had been gradually shaping itself in my mind for months past.
Simon and Eliza in the house, and Markie emerging from his seclusion, I had the feeling that Caragh was coming to life after years of standing like a great silent tomb.
I went and found them both sad--he for the loss of his new mistress, and she because she had no longer a friend to make the seclusion of the convent pleasant.
The closest guess has him in seclusion because of terrible mutilation suffered in the fire at Andor House.
Cain emerged from the seclusion he had entered after speaking with the Skaald Laar, and called for Colonel Dantes.
Orkborne, this gentleman, was expected, and he presented him to Sir Hugh with every mark of regard, as a companion in whose conversation, he flattered himself, pain might be lightened, and seclusion from mixt company cheerfully supported.
A cell in Fontevrault and ultimately an enrollment in its necrology should have satisfied a captive queen of fifty-three, whose path in life had led her in any case to seclusion from the world.
Judaism, and when I entered the rabbinate, it was to become a rabbi of the sort my father was and my grandfather before him, to live the life of a scholar, not in seclusion, not in an ivory tower, but as part of the Jewish community, and somehow to influence it.
He did resent that they were near when he wanted to talk to Saya in what he did not yet think of as lover-like seclusion.
Prior of the Dominican house at Cologne, and on 8 February, 1479, he was present, as the socius of Gerhard von Elten, at the trial of John von Ruchratt of Wesel, who was found guilty of propagating the most subversive doctrines, and was sentenced to seclusion in the Augustinian monastery at Mainz, where he died in 1481.
Peter used for the seclusion, torture, and, finally, execution of his son, the Tsarevich Alexis.
Are we simply to fold our hands and trust that the humaner instincts of the present-day vivisector, working in the seclusion of his private laboratory, will keep him free from all that we regret in the vivisection of the past?
Greville, whose husband was absent at Washington, formed, as it were, a weaning time for , from the seclusion of the Illinois.
I know that instances of such antipathy have been recorded, and they would account for the seclusion of those who are subject to it.