Lexicographical Neighbors of Retiredness
Literary usage of Retiredness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings by Joseph Hall (1837)
"So mayest thou bestow the hours of thy close retiredness, that thou mayest have
cause to bless God ... The willing choice of retiredness in some persons. ..."
2. The Works of the Right Reverend Joseph Hall by Joseph Hall, Philip Wynter (1863)
"V.—Comfort from the willing choice of retiredness in some persons. Thou art close
shut up:—I have seen ..."
3. A Group of Englishmen (1795 to 1815) Being Records of the Younger Wedgwoods by Eliza Meteyard (1871)
"... Forest Rights—Eastbury—Josiah Wedgwood Sheriff of Dorsetshire—Prejudices of
County Nabobs—Illustrious Visitors to Gunville—Simplicity and retiredness of ..."
4. The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life by John Donne (1839)
"... that is, as St. Hierome notes, not in Jerusalem, in a tumultuary place, a
place of distraction, but in the desert, a place of solitude, and retiredness. ..."
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