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Seclude vs Recluse - What's the difference?

seclude | recluse |

As verbs the difference between seclude and recluse

is that seclude is to shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.; withdraw from society or into solitude: as, to seclude oneself from the world while recluse is to shut; to seclude.

As an adjective recluse is

(now rare) Sequestered; secluded, isolated.

As a noun recluse is

a person who lives in self-imposed isolation or seclusion from the world, especially for religious purposes; a hermit.

seclude

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.; withdraw from society or into solitude: as, to seclude oneself from the world.
  • To shut or keep out; exclude; preclude.

    • Derived terms

    * secluded * secludedly

    Related terms

    * seclusion * seclusive

    References

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    recluse

    English

    (wikipedia recluse)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (now rare ) Sequestered; secluded, isolated.
    • a recluse monk or hermit
  • * J. Philips
    • In meditation deep, recluse / From human converse.
  • (now rare ) Hidden, secret.

    • Synonyms

    * reclusive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
    • (Foxe)
  • (US) A brown recluse spider.

    • Synonyms

    anchorite, eremite, hermit * See also

    Derived terms

    * brown recluse * recluse spider

    Verb

    (reclus)
  • (obsolete) To shut; to seclude.
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