Seclude vs Reclusive - What's the difference?
seclude | reclusive |
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.
Of, characterized by, or preferring privacy and isolation; secluded.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=December 19
, author=Kerry Brown
, title=Kim Jong-il obituary
, work=The Guardian
*
As a verb 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.As an adjective reclusive is
of, characterized by, or preferring privacy and isolation; secluded.seclude
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(en-verb)Derived terms
* secluded * secludedlyReferences
*reclusive
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(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Kim Jong-il, who has died aged 69, was the general secretary of the Workers party of Korea, and head of the military in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). He was one of the most reclusive and widely condemned national leaders of the late 20th and early 21st century, leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically broken and divided from South Korea.}}
- And if it sort not well, you may conceal her,
- As best befits her wounded reputation,
- In some reclusive and religious life,
- Out of all eyes, tongues, minds and injuries.