reclude

verb — 3 senses

reclude

verb

/ɹɪˈkluːd/

Etymology From Latin reclūdere (“to open; to shut off”), from re- + claudere (“to close”).

1

Obsolete To open; to unblock.

2

To close off, to confine.

3

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:

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