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reclusive, a.|rɪˈkluːsɪv|
[f. as recluse v. + -ive.]
Marked by reclusion or retirement. Now freq. of persons.
1599Shakes. Much Ado iv. i. 244 You may conceale her..In some reclusiue and religious life, Out of all eyes. 1661R. Davenport City-Nightcap iv. 45 You shall unto the Monasterie of Matrons, And spend your daies reclusive. 1850O. Winslow Inner Life 207 The gospel of Jesus is not reclusive or selfish. 1965Listener 16 Sept. 426/2 A reclusive New Englander who wrote but did not flourish in the literary climate of Transcendentalism. 1971Wall St. Jrnl. 13 Aug. 1/6 Esquire..ran a cover showing the reclusive Howard Hughes. 1979Daily Tel. 1 Sept. 21/3 Equal partnership deals are not common in the business career of the reclusive Mr Ludwig.
Hence reˈclusively adv., in the manner of a recluse; reˈclusiveness.
1895Th. Watts in 19th Cent. Feb. 235 Her reclusiveness shut her in and away from many people. 1925C. Connolly Let. 25 Jan. in Romantic Friendship (1975) 56 The last week of Minehead..left me with an intense reclusiveness. 1963Punch 13 Feb. 249/1 His life was spent uneventfully, reclusively almost. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 14 Feb. 15/2 My symptom was reclusiveness. 1979N. & Q. June 240/2 W. S. W. was both a Scholar and subsequent Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he lived reclusively. |