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secluse

/sɪˈkluːs/

secluse adjective: secluded.

Adjective

secluse (comparative more secluse, superlative most secluse)

  1. (archaic) Secluded.
    • […] or by removing the thing (if it be a materiall thing, as this was) out of the placęs of reſort, into ſome ſecluſe place, vvhere the people might neither come at it, nor ſee it, and where without offence it might ſtill be kept for a monument of Gods mercy: […]1605, Leonard Hutten, An Ansvvere to a Certaine Treatise of the Crosse in Baptisme, Oxford: […] Ioſeph Barnes, page 67
    • Was it not you, Henry, who in
      The guise of a hermit thrush once
      Led me down a deer path
      To your secluse and secret springs
      On the lap of Fair Haven Hill?2010, J. Walter Brain, “Epigaea Springs”, in Laura Dassow Walls, editor, The Concord Saunterer, volume 18, The Thoreau Society, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 96

Forms of secluse

comparativemore secluse
superlativemost secluse

Origin of secluse

Borrowed from Latin sēclūsus. Compare with Spanish secluso (now obsolete).

Words that rhyme with secluse

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Questions about secluse

What does secluse mean?
Secluse means secluded.
What part of speech is secluse?
Secluse is an adjective.
How do you pronounce secluse?
Secluse is pronounced /sɪˈkluːs/.

Words near secluse in the dictionary

  1. secludedly
  2. secludedness
  3. secludes
  4. secludest
  5. secluding
  6. secluse
  7. seclusion
  8. seclusion lodge
  9. seclusion lodges
  10. seclusionary
  11. seclusionism

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