recluding

Verb

reclude (third-person singular simple present recludes, present participle recluding, simple past and past participle recluded)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To open; to unblock.
2. (reflexive, transitive) To close off, to confine.
3. (reflexive, transitive) To seclude, cut off from the community, the world etc.
   • And, surely, no woman who knows that of herself can be rightly censured for not recluding herself from the world: it is only women without the power to love who have no right to provoke men's love.1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson