单词 | seclusive |
释义 | seclusiveadj. 1. Serving or tending to seclude; disposed to seclude oneself, affecting seclusion. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [adjective] > tending to seclude seclusivea1834 a1834 Coleridge (Worcester 1860) 1834 I. Taylor Saturday Evening 274 Religion or the devotional part of it is..by its necessary condition seclusive. 1890 F. Barrett Between Life & Death I. ii. 29 Her ways were odd and seclusive. 1894 J. T. Fowler in St. Adamnan Vita S. Columbae Introd. 38 On the top a palisade and quick hedge for seclusive enclosure. 1903 Daily Chron. 2 Feb. 4/6 The Royal Society electing him to their seclusive membership. 2. Scots Law. Exclusive of. ΚΠ 1855 Deed in Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 9 304 In liferent for her liferent alimentary use of the annual proceeds thereof allenarly, and seclusive of the jus mariti of [her husband]. Derivatives seˈclusively adv. ΚΠ 1883 W. Jolly Life J. Duncan xxxix. 466 The enclosing hills seemed to shut out the cottage more seclusively from the world. seˈclusiveness n. 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 1822 Examiner 347/2 [The picture] Landscape with fall of water, &c. is poetical seclusiveness. 1885 J. M. Ludlow in Homil. Rev. Apr. 282 What we may call their [sc. Jewish Rabbins] seclusiveness of thought. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < |
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