seclusion. exclusion

Roget-categorie 893

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.3. Sympathetic affections
›› 6.3.1. Social affections

#893. Seclusion. Exclusion

zelfstandig naamwoord

seclusion, privacy — retirement — reclusion, recess — snugness etc. adj. — delitescence^† — rustication, rus in urbe [Lat.] — solitude — solitariness etc. (singleness) 87 — isolation — loneliness etc. adj. — estrangement from the world, voluntary exile — aloofness.
cell, hermitage — convent etc. 1000 — sanctum sanctorum [Lat.].
depopulation, desertion, desolation — wilderness etc. (unproductive) 169 — howling wilderness — rotten borough, Old Sarum.
exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription — cut, cut direct — dead cut.
inhospitality^†, inhospitableness etc. adj. — dissociability^† — domesticity, Darby and Joan.
recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite — anchoret^†, anchorite — Simon Stylites^† — troglodyte, Timon of Athens^†, Santon^†, solitaire, ruralist^†, disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, Diogenes — outcast, Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic^† — wastrel, foundling, wilding^†.

werkwoord

be secluded, live secluded etc. adj. — keep aloof, stand, hold oneself aloof, keep in the background, stand in the background — keep snug — shut oneself up — deny oneself, seclude oneself creep into a corner, rusticate, aller planter ses choux [Fr.] — retire, retire from the world — take the veil — abandon etc. 624 — sport one's oak [Slang].
cut, cut dead — refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge — look cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon — repel, blackball, excommunicate, exclude, exile, expatriate — banish, outlaw, maroon, ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, send to Coventry, keep at arm's length, draw a cordon round.
depopulate — dispeople^†, unpeople^†.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent^†, private, bye — out of the world, out of the way — the world forgetting by the world forgot" [Pope]. snug, domestic, stay-at-home.
unsociable — unsocial, dissocial^† — inhospitable, cynical, inconversable^†, unclubbable, sauvage [Fr.], troglodytic.
solitary — lonely, lonesome — isolated, single.
estranged — unfrequented — uninhabitable, uninhabited — tenantless — abandoned — deserted, deserted in one's utmost need — unfriended^† — kithless^†, friendless, homeless — lorn^†, forlorn, desolate.
unvisited, unintroduced^†, uninvited, unwelcome — under a cloud, left to shift for oneself, derelict, outcast.
banished etc. v..

uitdrukking

noli me tangere [Lat.].
among them but not of them" [Byron]; and homeless near a thousand homes I stood" [Wordsworth]; far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife [Gray]; makes a solitude and calls it peace" [Byron]; magna civitas magna solitudo [Lat.] — never less alone than when alone" [Rogers]; O sacred solitude! divine retreat! " [Young].

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