Seclude vs Sunder - What's the difference?
seclude | sunder |
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 break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
To , separate.
(UK, dialect, dated, transitive) To expose to the sun and wind.
a separation into parts; a division or severance
* 1939 , , Additional Poems , VII, lines 2-4
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 a preposition sunder is
without.seclude
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Verb
(en-verb)Derived terms
* secluded * secludedlyReferences
*sunder
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Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Derived terms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) . More at sundry.Verb
(en verb)- {{quote-book
citation, genre= , publisher=Llumina Press , isbn=9781932047233 , page=69 , passage=… Carlo finally saw Everything, before it sunders' into things; he saw Knowledge before it '''sunders''' into knowing; he saw Integrity before it '''sunders''' in integrals; he saw Unity before it ' sunders into units. }}
- (Halliwell)
Quotations
* 1881 , Severed Selves, lines 8-9 *: '' Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: — *: '' Such are we now.Derived terms
* asunder * sunderanceNoun
(en noun)- He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
- I shook his hand and tore my heart in sunder
- And went with half my life about my ways.