Seclude vs Secede - What's the difference?
seclude | secede |
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.
To split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation.
* 2007,
(uncommon) To split or to withdraw one or more constituent entities from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation.
* 2002 , Darryl E. Brock, "José Agustín Quintero: Cuban Patriot in Confederate Diplomatic Service", Cubans in the Confederacy: José Agustín Quintero, Ambrosio José Gonzales, and Loreta Janeta Velazquez , Ed. Phillip Thomas Tucker, publ. McFarland, ISBN 9780786409761,
As verbs the difference between seclude and secede
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 secede is to split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation.seclude
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* secluded * secludedlyReferences
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(seced)Writers declare independence for Wirral., Wirral Globe, retrieved 11 July 2007.
- We can secede from the United Kingdom any time we want.
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- At the same time, Nolan also secretly contracted with the crafty United States Army general James Wilkinson to organize some men to secede Texas from Spanish America.
