RECLU'SE, adjective Shut up; sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; as a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life. I all the live-long day consume in meditation deep, recluse from human converse. RECLU'SE, noun 1. A person who live in retirement or seclusion from intercourse with the world; as a hermit or monk. 2. A person who confines himself to a cell in a monastery.
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