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seclusive, a.|sɪˈkluːsɪv|
[As if ad. L. *sēclūsivus, f. sēclūs-, sēclūdĕre: see seclude v.]
1. Serving or tending to seclude; disposed to seclude oneself, affecting seclusion.
a1834Coleridge (Worcester 1860). 1834I. Taylor Sat. Even. 274 Religion or the devotional part of it is..by its necessary condition seclusive. 1890F. Barrett Between Life & Death I. ii. 29 Her ways were odd and seclusive. 1894J. T. Fowler Adamnan Introd. 38 On the top a palisade and quick hedge for seclusive enclosure. 1903Daily Chron. 2 Feb. 4/6 The Royal Society electing him to their seclusive membership.
2. Sc. Law. Exclusive of.
1855Deed in Law Rep., 9 App. Cases 304 In liferent for her liferent alimentary use of the annual proceeds thereof allenarly, and seclusive of the jus mariti of [her husband].
Hence seˈclusively adv., seˈclusiveness.
1822Examiner 347/2 [The picture] Landscape with fall of water, &c. is poetical seclusiveness. 1883W. Jolly Life J. Duncan xxxix. 466 The enclosing hills seemed to shut out the cottage more seclusively from the world. 1885J. M. Ludlow in Homil. Rev. Apr. 282 What we may call their [Jewish Rabbins] seclusiveness of thought. |