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comparative more recluse, superlative most recluse
(now rare) sequestered; secluded, isolated quotations
In meditation deep, recluse / From human converse.
1708, [John Philips], “(please specify the page)”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […]
(now rare) hidden, secret
plural recluses
a person who lives in self-imposed isolation or seclusion from the world, especially for religious purposes; a hermit quotations examples
The recluse in the fable kept a cat to keep off the rats, and then a cow to feed the cat with milk, and a man to keep the cow and so on. My ambitions also grew like the family of the recluse.
1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xv
(obsolete) the place where a recluse dwells; a place of isolation or seclusion quotations
that day of appearance taken out of the recluse and committed to safe custody
1563 March 30, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […]
(US) a brown recluse spider examples
third-person singular simple present recluses, present participle reclusing, simple past and past participle reclused
(obsolete) to shut; to seclude