secluse
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sēclūsus. Compare with Spanish secluso (now obsolete).
Pronunciation
Adjective
secluse (comparative more secluse, superlative most secluse)
- (now rare) Secluded.
- 1605, Leonard Hutten, An Ansvvere to a Certaine Treatise of the Crosse in Baptisme, Oxford: Ioſeph Barnes, page 67:
- 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:
- 2010, J. Walter Brain, “Epigaea Springs”, in Laura Dassow Walls, editor, The Concord Saunterer, volume 18, The Thoreau Society, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 96:
- 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?
Further reading
- “secluse, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Latin
Adjective
sēclūse