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seclusion
/ sɪˈkluːʒən /
noun
- the act of secluding or the state of being secluded
- a secluded place
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- nonse·clusion noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of seclusion1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of seclusion1
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Example Sentences
Ibrahim says he repeatedly wrote letters asking for his son to be taken out of seclusion.
On a bluff overlooking the sea, he pitched a tent and lived there for the next year in near total seclusion.
But his period of monastic seclusion officially comes to an end on Thursday.
Should they be seeking to bridge the gap between the hearing and deaf communities or maintain a stance of isolation and seclusion?
Idi Amin of Uganda, for one, died in the Kingdom after many years of quiet but apparently comfortable seclusion.
And now commenced a life of seclusion and retirement, which both of them enjoyed from its very novelty.
With them she spent a year, in a seclusion from the world almost as entire as that which she found in the solitude of the convent.
The seclusion in which she lived encouraged deep musings upon these vast inequalities of life.
In 1822 this "deserted woman" had lived for three years in the most rigid seclusion at Courcelles near Bayeux.
Mazaroff refrained from following, saying that he would smoke a cigarette in the seclusion of the garden.
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