reclusion, recess; snugness &c adj.; delitescence†; rustication, rus in
urbe [Lat.]; solitude; solitariness &c (singleness) 87; isolation;
loneliness &c adj.; estrangement from the world, voluntary exile;
aloofness.
cell, hermitage; convent &c 1000; sanctum sanctorum [Lat.].
depopulation, desertion, desolation; wilderness &c (unproductive)
169; howling wilderness; rotten borough, Old Sarum.
exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism,
proscription; cut, cut direct; dead cut.
inhospitality†, inhospitableness &c 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†.
V. be secluded, live secluded &c 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 &c 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†.
Adj. 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 &c v..
Phr. 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].