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seclusion

[si-kloo-zhuhn]

noun

  1. an act of secluding.

    the seclusion of unruly students.

  2. the state of being secluded; retirement; solitude.

    He sought seclusion in his study.

  3. a secluded place.



seclusion

/ ɪˈːə /

noun

  1. the act of secluding or the state of being secluded

  2. a secluded place

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • nonseclusion noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of seclusion1

1615–25; < Medieval Latin ŧūō- (stem of ŧūō ) < Latin ŧū ( us ) (past participle of ŧū to seclude ) + -ō- -ion
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of seclusion1

C17: from Medieval Latin ŧūō; see seclude
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The school has also advertised for a seclusion manager to start as soon as possible.

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Paris Hilton has previously backed parents trying to toughen the law on restraint and seclusion in Northern Ireland's schools.

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Mary Pickford, who will be 80 in April, is upstairs in her bedroom in a self-imposed seclusion that has lasted nearly two decades.

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We have spoken to an eight-year-old autistic pupil who was repeatedly locked inside seclusion rooms at a different school while aged five.

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A flashback shows the pair arguing over their living situation; he’s enthusiastic about relocating the family to the farmhouse, and she’s preemptively suffocating from seclusion’s effects on her work as an artist.

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