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Reclusive   /rɪklˈusɪv/  /riklˈusɪv/   Listen
adjective
Reclusive  adj.  
1.
Affording retirement from society. "Some reclusive and religious life."
2.
Disposed to avoid the company of other people; living like a recluse (1); not sociable; of people.





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"Reclusive" Quotes from Famous Books



... success Will fashion the event in better shape Than I can lay it down in likelihood. But if all aim but this be levell'd false, The supposition of the lady's death Will quench the wonder of her infamy: And if it sort not well, you may conceal her,— As best befits her wounded reputation,— In some reclusive and religious life, Out of all eyes, tongues, minds, ...
— Much Ado About Nothing • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]
... sprinting easily toward her, and as the distance shortened, he recognized her. Edith Bailey, a second-year psychology major who had been attending his classes two semesters. Very intelligent, reclusive, not a local-grown product. Her work had a grimness about it, as though psychology was a dire obsession, especially abnormal psychology. One of her theme papers had been an exhaustive, mature but somehow overly determined, treatise on self-induced hallucination and auto-suggestion. ...
— Strange Alliance • Bryce Walton


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