reclude
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹɪˈkluːd/
Verb
reclude (third-person singular simple present recludes, present participle recluding, simple past and past participle recluded)
- (transitive, obsolete) To open; to unblock. [15th-19th c.]
- (transitive or reflexive) To close off, to confine. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive or reflexive) To seclude, cut off from the community, the world etc. [from 16th c.]
- 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
- 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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