Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers
Section III. Sympathetic Affections
1. Social Affections

893. Seclusion. Exclusion.

   NOUN:SECLUSION, privacy, retirement, eremitism, anchoretism, anchoritism, reclusion, recess; suspension; snugness &c. adj.; concealment, delitescence; rustication, rus in urbe [L.], ruralism, rurality [rare], solitude; solitariness (singleness) [See Unity]; isolation; “splendid isolation”; loneliness &c. adj.; estrangement from the world, voluntary exile; aloofness.
  depopulation, desertion, desolation; wilderness (unproductive) [See Unproductiveness]; howling wilderness; rotten borough, Old Sarum [Eng.].
  RETREAT, cell, hermitage, cloister; convent [See Temple]; sanctum sanctorum [L.], study, library, den [colloq.].
  EXCLUSION, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription; economic pressure; cut, cut direct; dead cut.
  UNSOCIABILITY, unsociableness, dissociability, dissociality; inhospitality, inhospitableness &c. adj.; domesticity, self-sufficiency, Darby and Joan.
  RECLUSE, hermit, eremite, anchoret or anchorite, anchorist [obs.]; santon; stylite, pillarist, pillar-saint [all Ch. hist.]; St. Simeon Stylites; caveman, cave-dweller, troglodyte, Timon of Athens, solitarian [obs.], solitaire, ruralist [obs.], disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, cynic, Diogenes.
  OUTCAST, pariah, leper; outsider, rank outsider; castaway, pilgarlic [low], wastrel [dial. Eng.], losel, foundling; wilding.
   VERB:BE or LIVE SECLUDED &c. adj.; keep -, stand -, hold oneself- -aloof, – in the background; keep snug; shut oneself up; deny oneself, seclude oneself; creep into a corner, rusticate, dissocialize; retire, – from the world; hermitize; take the veil; abandon [See Relinquishment]; sport one’s oak [Univ. slang, Eng.].
  EXCLUDE, repel; cut, – dead; refuse to -associate with, – acknowledge; send to Coventry, look cool -, turn one’s back -, shut the door- upon; blackball, excommunicate, exile, expatriate; banish, outlaw, maroon, ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, keep at arm’s length, draw a cordon round, boycott, embargo, blockade, isolate.
  DEPOPULATE, dispeople, unpeople; desolate, devastate.
   ADJECTIVE:SECLUDED, sequestered, retired, delitescent, private, by; in a backwater; out of the world, out of the way; “the world forgetting by the world forgot” [Pope].
  UNSOCIABLE, unsocial, dissocial, inhospitable, cynical, inconversable [obs.], unclubbable or unclubable [colloq.], sauvage [F.]; hermitical, eremitic or eremitical, anchoretic or anchoretical, anchoritic or anchoritical, anchoretish, anchoritish, troglodytic.
  snug, domestic, stay-at-home.
  EXCLUDED &c. v.; unfrequented, unvisited, unintroduced, uninvited, unwelcome; on the fringe of society; under a cloud, left to shift for oneself; deserted, – in one’s utmost need; unfriended, friendless, kithless, homeless, desolate, lorn, forlorn; solitary, lonely, lonesome, isolated, single, estranged; derelict, outcast, outside the gates, “yammering at the bars”; banished &c. v.; under an embargo.
  UNINHABITED, unoccupied, untenanted, tenantless, abandoned; uninhabitable.
   QUOTATIONS:

1. Noli me tangere.
2. Among them but not of them.—Byron
3. And homeless near a thousand homes I stood.—Wordsworth
4. Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife.—Gray
5. Makes a solitude and calls it peace.—Byron
6. Magna civitas magna solitudo.
7. Never less alone than when alone.—Rogers
8. O sacred solitude! divine retreat!—Young
9. Alone as the last man on earth.—Galsworthy