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Seclusive

Seclusive \Se*clu"sive\, a. Tending to seclude; keeping in seclusion; secluding; sequestering.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
seclusive

1743, from Latin seclus-, past participle stem of secludere (see seclude) + -ive. Related: Seclusively; seclusiveness.

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seclusive

a. Serving or tending to seclude (oneself); affecting seclusion.

Usage examples of "seclusive".

I suppose that he had been leading a seclusive existence, like a sick animal.

If any human being at all had held a place in his queer seclusive existence, it would have been Denys.

There is a mutual confrontation of games, of realities 'where you live', which is quite different from the essentially seclusive and permissive 'ear' in one-to-one therapies.

He had lived a life that was increasingly seclusive and the Kentucky creche in which he was being brought up decided to cancel him and of course it was only some eight or ten days before cancellation that it occurred to anyone to report him to the New York Institute for the Science of Man.