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recluse

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
recluse /rɪˈkluːs/

▶noun a person who avoids others and lives a solitary life.

– derivatives
reclusion noun,
reclusive adjective,
reclusiveness noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. reclus, past part. of reclure, from L. recludere ‘enclose’, from re- ‘again’ + claudere ‘to shut’.

'recluse' also found in these Oxford entries:

anchorite - solitary

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