Recluse vs Confined - What's the difference?
recluse | confined | 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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(confine)
not free to move
To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on'' or ''with .
* Milton
* Dryden
As adjectives the difference between recluse and confined
is that recluse is (now rare) Sequestered; secluded, isolated while confined is not free to move.As verbs the difference between recluse and confined
is that recluse is to shut; to seclude while confined is past tense of confine.As a noun recluse
is a person who lives in self-imposed isolation or seclusion from the world, especially for religious purposes; a hermit.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)confined
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)confine
English
Verb
(confin)- Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined ! let order die!
- He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
- Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven
- Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.