Seclusion
[sɪ'kluːʒ(ə)n] or [sɪ'klʊʒən]
Definition
(n.) The act of secluding, or the state of being secluded; separation from society or connection; a withdrawing; privacy; as, to live in seclusion.
Editor: Rosalie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Separation, retirement, privacy, secrecy, obscurity, solitude.
Editor: Simon
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Retirement, privacy, retreat, solitude, secrecy,[See SCRUTINY]
Checker: Phyllis
Examples
- From the first I was tempted to make an exception to this rule of avoidance: the seclusion, the very gloom of the walk attracted me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Not a human creature, large or small, appeared in any part of the sacred seclusion. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The delicious monotony of life in our calm seclusion flowed on with me, like a smooth stream with a swimmer who glides down the current. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She had become prioress of Argenteuil and led a life of complete seclusion. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Booth was hurried away into seclusion, and the next morning the city that had been so gay over night with bunting was draped with mourning. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mrs. Brandley had been a friend of Miss Havisham's before the time of her seclusion. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In the seclusion of their monasteries, they speculated on the mysterious powers of Nature, then partially revealed to them, and shadowed forth images of their possible applications. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- And Mrs. Churchill probably has not health or spirits like Selina to enjoy that sort of seclusion. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The reading completed, Mr. Bruff addressed me for the first time since we had been shut up together in the seclusion of his own room. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The storms of life pass harmless over the valley of Seclusion--dwell, dear lady, in the valley. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- My morning hours succeeded each other calmly in the quiet and seclusion of my own room. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- A certain seclusion, a certain aloofness, would add greatly to the prestige of the god. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the monarch of all European ruins, the Coliseum, maintains that reserve and that royal seclusion which is proper to majesty. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- As if it whispered to him of its fifty years of silence and seclusion, it shuts him up the closer. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I have more than once stayed here a few nights for the sake of seclusion, said Bulstrode, indifferently; I am quite disposed to do so now. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Edited by Ethelred