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reˈtiredness
Also 7 retyr-.
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The state or quality of being retired; privacy, seclusion; reserve. (Very common in the 17th century.) a. of disposition, character, or conduct.
a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. (1605) 127 A tode-like retirednesse, and closenesse of mind. 1598Dallington Meth. Trav. B iij b, Neither to dis-taste them by a too much retirednesse, nor to hinder himselfe by too much familiaritie. 1694Ld. Delamere in Marvell's Wks. (Grosart) IV. 42 The lowest condescentions and meanest familiarity cannot loose a Prince so much as too much retiredness, or being over-reserved. a1713T. Ellwood Autobiog. (1765) 40 We spent much of the Evening in Retiredness of Mind. 1839Pusey Let. in Liddon Life (1893) II. xxiv. 142 There seems in this a spirit foreign to the retiredness and absence of self—of real Catholicity. 1894N.Y. Tribune 5 July, A humility of speech, and general retiredness of character almost incompatible with the newspaper character of the man.
b. of manner of living.
1617Moryson Itin. ii. 47 In his nature he loued priuate retirednesse, with good fare, and some few choice friends. 1666J. Smith Old Age (1676) 18 Men begin to leave off their employments, and betake themselves to retiredness. a1703Burkitt On N. T. Luke ii. 45 Our Blessed Saviour when on earth, did not take pleasure in a wild retiredness. 1827Carlyle Germ. Rom. II. 142 Her retiredness did not please him, and he feared, that in the end, it might make her silly. 1834Wordsw. To C'tess Lonsdale 41 Thus, Lady, is retiredness a veil [etc.].
c. of places.
1660T. Blount Boscobel 36 His Majesty..commended the place for its retiredness. c1670Wood Life (O.H.S.) I. 270 To refresh his mind with a melancholy walke, and with the retiredness of the place. 1727Hearne in Reliq. (1897) II. 673 To have a better notion of the ancient solitariness and retiredness of the place. 1805J. Almon Wilkes' Corr. III. 61 A grove of venerable old elms near the house, with the retiredness of the mansion itself, made it as sweet a retreat as the most poetical imagination could create. |