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单词 seclusive
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seclusiveadj.

/sɪˈkluːsɪv/
Etymology: As if < Latin *sēclūsivus, < sēclūs- , sēclūdĕre : see seclude v.
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.
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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.
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1883 W. Jolly Life J. Duncan xxxix. 466 The enclosing hills seemed to shut out the cottage more seclusively from the world.
seˈclusiveness n.
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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.
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