recluse
21recluse — noun (C) someone who chooses to live alone, and does not like seeing or talking to other people: The guy was a recluse a defrocked priest, so people said. reclusive /rI klu:sIv/ adjective …
22recluse — /rəˈklus / (say ruh kloohs) noun 1. a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation. 2. a religious voluntarily immured or remaining for life within a cell. –adjective 3. Rare solitary or living in seclusion …
23recluse — [13] A recluse is etymologically a person who is ‘shut up’. The word was borrowed from reclus, the past participle of Old French reclure ‘shut up’. This was descended from Latin reclūdere, a compound verb formed from the prefix re ‘again’ and… …
24recluse — n. & adj. n. a person given to or living in seclusion or isolation, esp. as a religious discipline; a hermit. adj. favouring seclusion; solitary. Derivatives: reclusion n. reclusive adj. Etymology: ME f. OF reclus recluse past part. of reclure f …
25Recluse literature — refers to a Japanese literary movement that rose to its peak in the late Heian Period and Kamakura Period of Japan. It was started by men who, choosing the isolated life of a recluse over that of the busy urban dweller, acquired the freedom to… …
26Recluse (disambiguation) — Recluse may also refer to:*Recluse, Wyoming, town in the United States *Brown recluse spider, venomous spider native to North America …
27recluse spider — recluse spider, = brown recluse. (Cf. ↑brown recluse) …
28Recluse, Wyoming — Recluse is a small unincorporated town in Campbell County, Wyoming, United States.It consists of a school, oil businesses, and a post office …
29Recluse spider — Taxobox name = Recluse spiders image width = 200px image caption = Loxosceles amazonica spider regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Arachnida ordo = Araneae familia = Sicariidae genus = Loxosceles genus authority = Heineken Lowe, 1832… …
30Recluse Sisters — The Recluse Sisters are a Roman Catholic community of Religious Sisters who were founded in 1943, in Alberta, Canada, by Rita Renaud, Jeannette Roy and the Reverend Father Louis Marie Parent, OMI, as Les Recluses Missionaires. They are a monastic …
