Recluse
[noun rek-loos, ri-kloos; adjective ri-kloos, rek-loos] /noun ˈrɛk lus, rɪˈklus; adjective rɪˈklus, ˈrɛk lus/
noun
1.
a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation.
2.
Also, incluse. a religious voluntary immured in a cave, hut, or the like, or one remaining within a cell for life.
adjective, recluse, Also, reclusive
3.
shut off or apart from the world; living in seclusion, often for religious reasons.
4.
characterized by seclusion; solitary.
/rɪˈkluːs/
noun
1.
a person who lives in seclusion
2.
a person who lives in solitude to devote himself to prayer and religious meditation; a hermit, anchorite, or anchoress
adjective
3.
solitary; retiring
n.
c.1200, “person shut up from the world for purposes of religious meditation,” from Old French reclus (fem. recluse) “hermit, recluse,” also “confinement, prison; convent, monastery,” noun use of reclus (adj.) “shut up,” from Late Latin reclusus, past participle of recludere “to shut up, enclose” (but in classical Latin “to throw open”), from Latin re-, intensive prefix, + claudere “to shut” (see close (v.)).
Read Also:
- Reclusion
[ri-kloo-zhuh n] /rɪˈklu ʒən/ noun 1. the condition or life of a recluse. 2. an act of shutting or the state of being shut up in seclusion.
- Reclusive
[noun rek-loos, ri-kloos; adjective ri-kloos, rek-loos] /noun ˈrɛk lus, rɪˈklus; adjective rɪˈklus, ˈrɛk lus/ noun 1. a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation. 2. Also, incluse. a religious voluntary immured in a cave, hut, or the like, or one remaining within a cell for life. adjective, recluse, Also, […]
- Recode
[kohd] /koʊd/ noun 1. a system for communication by telegraph, heliograph, etc., in which long and short sounds, light flashes, etc., are used to symbolize the content of a message: Morse code. 2. a system used for brevity or secrecy of communication, in which arbitrarily chosen words, letters, or symbols are assigned definite meanings. 3. […]
- Recodification
[kod-uh-fi-key-shuh n, koh-duh-] /ˌkɒd ə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən, ˌkoʊ də-/ noun 1. the act, process, or result of arranging in a systematic form or code. 2. Law. /ˌkəʊdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən; ˌkɒ-/ noun 1. systematic organization of methods, rules, etc 2. (law) the collection into one body of the principles of a system of law
- Recodify
[kod-uh-fahy, koh-duh-] /ˈkɒd əˌfaɪ, ˈkoʊ də-/ verb (used with object), codified, codifying. 1. to reduce (laws, rules, etc.) to a . 2. to make a digest of; arrange in a systematic collection. /ˈkəʊdɪˌfaɪ; ˈkɒ-/ verb -fies, -fying, -fied 1. (transitive) to organize or collect together (laws, rules, procedures, etc) into a system or code v. […]