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US
/sɪˈkɫuʒən/
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[ UK /sɪklˈuːʒən/ ]
[ UK /sɪklˈuːʒən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of secluding yourself from others
- the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others
How To Use seclusion In A Sentence
- Jimmy Connors is not Howard Hughes, but has spent a good deal longer in seclusion.
- Going into a somewhat different trajectory, specifically to continue a line of speculation from a previous post on an African bridge house: can someone be fundamentally altered — like the corn they're cultivating to produce cancer cures — while living quasi-permanently in flourescent-lit dampness and hermetic seclusion, detached from the vagaries of weather, time and natural pollination, amidst pure geology? Cave Pharming
- But, more than the excitement, the sheer seclusion and beauty that a quiet alpine ski run can give is something rarely experienced.
- In about eight miles of Lancaster, there are about 25,000 Amish living in seclusion.
- Icons were painted by faithful painters - usually monks - in monastic seclusion.
- A lyrical, a scholarly, a fastidious mind might have used seclusion and solitude to perfect its powers.
- The veiling of women by scarf or hood, and their seclusion, became a mark of honour and social status in cities of the Middle East and Mediterranean world in the centuries before the Common Era.
- He's a strapping, robust he-man living a life of seclusion with other retired adventurers in Kenya, who handily dispatches a group of assassins.
- Weather has also contributed to the seclusion and peculiarity of the Azores - stormy winter seas often prevent access to the smaller islands even by air for days at a time.
- In these hot damp climates the venereal requirements and reproductive powers of the female greatly exceed those of the male; and hence the dissoluteness of morals would be phenomenal, were it not obviated by seclusion, the sabre and the revolver. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night