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Definition of Secludedness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Secludedness
Literary usage of Secludedness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1870)
"The best is to be still. To be employed is good, yet better 'tis to pray; Still
better dumb and still before the Lord to stay. secludedness. ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1896)
"... of the almost crushing civilisation of Paris, we cannot but be reminded in
several points of the journal to Stella. There was the secludedness in Jenny ..."
3. The Unsound Mind and the Law: A Presentation of Forensic Psychiatry by George W. Jacoby (1918)
"A remarkable trait from the very beginning was his extreme secludedness. At all
times he seems to be depressed. He never jokes or laughs with his comrades ..."
4. Life, Here and There: Or, Sketches of Society and Adventure at Far-apart by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1854)
"... they break up the light of the sky into golden flecks, and make you, of the
common highway, a bower of the most approved secludedness and beauty. ..."
5. The San Diego Garden Fair: Personal Impressions of the Architecture by Eugen Neuhaus, Karl Eugen Neuhaus (1916)
"An air of the secludedness of the Mission, from which it too has the general
outline, is evident in this building, which contrasts markedly with the loose ..."
6. Essays for College English by Louis Ignatius Bredvold, James Cloyd Bowman, LeRoy Bethuel Greenfield, Bruce Weirick (1915)
"On far Samoa's tropic shore You moored your slender bark, And there in calm
secludedness did live To write the spirit of your gentle soul, And over all the ..."
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