recluselyadv.
/rᵻˈkluːsli/, U.S. /ˈrɛˌklusli/, /rəˈklusli/, /riˈklusli/, /ˈrɛˌkluzli/, /rəˈkluzli/, /riˈkluzli/ Now rare.
In a secluded manner; as a recluse.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > [adverb]
deeplyc888
highOE
darkOE
dimly?c1225
darklyc1350
mistilya1382
murklya1400
subtlya1500
obscurelya1527
confuselya1530
diffuselyc1530
confusedly?1531
diffusedly1567
difficultly1568
indistinctly1580
enigmatically1590
perplexedly1603
subtilely1605
abstrusely1611
cloudily1651
oracularly1654
perplexly1670
reclusely1673
irrecognizably1841
Pickwickianly1866
delphically1927
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [adverb]
in privity?c1225
in private1469
on private1582
monkishly1595
retiredly1599
recluse1612
reclusely1748
in seclusion1785
secludedly1837
en retraite1840
reclusively1845
upon the snug1861
to lie up1881
1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 182 If you jest and mean loosly, Though ne'r so reclusely.
1686 Love's Posie xxiii. 137 They curs'd the Province, that reclusely confin'd a Genius as delicate as any at the Court.
1748 H. Walpole Let. 3 Sept. in Corr. (1941) IX. 76 From living reclusely, and from a little too much dignity, he [sc. Gray] never converses easily.
1794 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 15 22 Ida, reclusely brought up by a most worthy man.
1803 H. K. White Clifton Grove 19 In yon Hamlet's solitary shade, Reclusely dwelt the far-fam'd Clifton Maid.
1873 D. Masson Drummond of Hawthornden 23 In his veteran age, living reclusely in his fine old castle of Merchiston.
1959 B. R. Bamford Substance 168 Punts manned reclusely by middle-aged men.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adv.1673