seclusion
/səˈkluːʒən/ noun C2- The act of secluding, shutting out or keeping apart.
- The state of being secluded or shut out, as from company, society, the world, etc.; solitude.
- A secluded, isolated or private place.
- The mature phase of the extratropical cyclone life cycle. · warm seclusion
Plural seclusions
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It is evidently the theory of some arm-chair lounger who evolves all these neat little paradoxes in the seclusion of his own study.
It was almost noon when they reached town and found their way to “Beechwood.” It was quite a fine old mansion, set back from the street in a seclusion of green elms and branching beeches.
As it was first presented to me, there were three possible explanations of the seclusion or incarceration of this gentleman in an outhouse of his father's mansion.
I knew that seclusion and solitude were very necessary for my friend in those hours of intense mental concentration during which he weighed every particle of evidence, constructed alternative theories, balanced one against the other, and made up his mind as to which points were essential and which immaterial.
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