单词 | reclusion |
释义 | reclusionn. 1. a. Seclusion (of oneself or another person) from society, human intercourse, etc.; the fact of being so secluded, esp. as part of a religious discipline; a state or period of seclusion or retirement. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun] privity?c1225 reclusionc1430 abstractionc1450 recess?1532 privacy1534 solitariousness1545 retirea1554 secess1570 privatenessa1586 retirednessa1586 retirement1603 secrecy1607 closeness1612 shadow1612 privatea1616 recluseness1648 abstractednessa1653 recluse1665 abscondence1694 seclusion1785 seclusiveness1822 retiracy1824 secludedness1835 retraite1843 society > faith > church government > monasticism > anchorite > [noun] > life of reclusionc1430 anchorism1573 anchoritism1660 recluse1665 hermitship1825 c1430 N. Love Mirror Blessed Life (Brasenose e.9) (1908) 43 (MED) Of this one benefice of so longe reclucioun for our sake we mowe neuere worthely doo satisfaccioun..to hym. a1500 St. Jerome (Lamb.) in Anglia (1880) 3 356 (MED) In a contrey callid Thebayda was a monastorye of nunnys..wher-yne were abowt two hundred ladies..in contynuall reclusione. 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 87 Vpon his first reclusion the father..giueth him a meditation to study vpon. 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa iii. ii. 275 Thus Gregory the 14th. was chosen, after..two whole months reclusion of the Conclave. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Bishop having harangued the People in Praise of the new Recluse; he conducted her Processionally to her Reclusion. 1783 T. Horde Intrigue in Cloyster ii. i. 21 I hope, dear nieces, we shall make the monastic life so acceptable that you will not repent your reclusion. 1824 R. Southey Bk. of Church I. xi. 334 Reclusion for the purpose of religious meditation, was the object of the earlier religious orders. 1878 Catholic World Nov. 175/1 The Liber Incantenatus gives the ceremony of reclusion. 1908 E. Wharton Hermit & Wild Woman 33 In a life of penance and reclusion her eyes might be opened to her iniquity. 1971 T. Merton Contempl. in World of Action ii. v. 300 A too-free development of ‘charisms’ of pilgrimage, hermit-solitude or reclusion. 1997 M. C. D. Macdonald in L. M. Dabney Edmund Wilson 157 The scholarly reclusions of the man who had learned Russian at forty, Hebrew in his fifties, Hungarian in his sixties. 2007 Independent 26 Feb. 5/5 [His]..return to Manhattan after an extended period of reclusion in the rolling hills of western Massachusetts. b. The fact or state of being confined as a prisoner, esp. in solitary confinement. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] > in solitary confinement reclusion1800 separate confinement1849 cell1861 pindown1985 1800 tr. L. S. Mercier New Picture Paris I. xlv. 190 Reclusion, or the punishment of the galleys. 1872 Daily News 13 Aug. A promise that the five years' ‘reclusion’ shall be changed to five years' simple imprisonment. 1928 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Criminal Law & Criminology 19 409 Prolongation of the reclusion of habitual criminals after the expiration of punishment. 1962 Times 10 Jan. 10/5 He was arrested in Lyons..and sentenced to 10 years' reclusion. 2006 B. Ehlers Between Christians & Moriscos iv. 91 An unrepentant morisco..received a year's reclusion for asking his parish priest for permission to slaughter a calf in the morisco manner. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > monastic property (general) > hermitage > [noun] anchor settleOE anchor-house?c1225 cabin1362 anchorage1593 anchorhold1631 hermitary1754 reclusion1808 kill1827 ashram1917 1808 R. Southey Lett. from Spain (ed. 3) I. vi. 116 He was obliged to establish Convents and Reclusions, as they were called, in other parts. 1826 E. Henderson Biblical Res. & Trav. in Russia vii. 178 Had we not been previously apprised of the existence of the monastery, we should not have expected to meet with a reclusion in the midst of so much military apparatus and noise. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1430 |
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