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re·cluse

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NOUN:

A person who withdraws from the world to live in seclusion and often in solitude.

ADJECTIVE:

Withdrawn from the world; reclusive.

ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Old French reclus, from Latin reclsus, past participle of recldere, to shut up : re-, re- + claudere, to close

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