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Another word for recluse

recluse Synonyms

recluse

n.

hermit, troglodyte, anchorite, eremite; see ascetic, hermit.

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Another word for recluse

adjective

Solitary and shut off from society:

secluded. See include

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In many ways he was still a recluse, but he wasn't wrapped up in himself.
Which came first, the recluse or the loneliness?
For a while she led at home the life of a recluse, speaking only to her confessor, and spending all her time in devotion and spiritual ecstasy.
He was sent as a child to be educated at Port Royal, and there he received his final bent towards the life of a recluse, and even of a hermit, which drew him to establish himself in the neighbourhood of Port Royal des Champs.
The second son, Charles Robert, a man of ability but of impracticable temper, a professed atheist and a recluse, died in 1884.

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