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Another word for recluse

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Adjective

  1. Solitary and shut off from society

    See also:

    include

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Another word for recluse

Noun
  1. See also:

    hermit

    ascetic

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Sentence Examples

  • In many ways he was still a recluse, but he wasn't wrapped up in himself.

  • Which came first, the recluse or the loneliness?

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  • 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.

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