Recluse vs Alone - What's the difference?
recluse | alone | Related terms |
(now rare ) Sequestered; secluded, isolated.
* J. Philips
(now rare ) Hidden, secret.
A person who lives in self-imposed isolation or seclusion from the world, especially for religious purposes; a hermit.
(obsolete) The place where a recluse dwells; a place of isolation or seclusion.
(US) A brown recluse spider.
(obsolete) To shut; to seclude.
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By oneself, solitary.
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*(Bible), (w) ii. 18
*:It is not good that the man should be alone .
*(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
*:Alone on a wide, wide sea.
Apart from, or exclusive of, others.
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*(Richard Bentley) (1662-1742)
*:God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being.
Considered separately.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone , without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
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, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist)
Without equal.
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, title= (lb) Unique; rare; matchless.
:(Shakespeare)
By one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.
Without outside help.
Exclusively.
Recluse is a related term of alone.
As adjectives the difference between recluse and alone
is that recluse is (now rare ) sequestered; secluded, isolated while alone is by oneself, solitary.As a noun recluse
is a person who lives in self-imposed isolation or seclusion from the world, especially for religious purposes; a hermit.As a verb recluse
is (obsolete) to shut; to seclude.As an adverb alone is
by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.recluse
English
(wikipedia recluse)Adjective
(en adjective)- a recluse monk or hermit
- In meditation deep, recluse / From human converse.
Synonyms
* reclusiveNoun
(en noun)- (Foxe)
Synonyms
anchorite, eremite, hermit * See alsoDerived terms
* brown recluse * recluse spiderVerb
(reclus)alone
English
(wikipedia alone)Adjective
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Rise of Europe's new autocrats, passage=Hungary's leader is not alone in eastern and southern Europe, where democratically elected populist strongmen increasingly dominate, deploying the power of the state and a battery of instruments of intimidation to crush dissent, demonise opposition, tame the media and tailor the system to their ends.}}