in the family circle; sans faon, sans
ceremonie[Fr]; arm in arm. 
     Phr. “a crowd is not company” [Bacon]; “be bright and jovial among
your guests tonight” [Macbeth]; “his worth is warrant for his welcome” [Two Gentlemen]; “let’s be red with mirth” [Winter’s Tale]; “welcome the coming speed the parting guest” [Pope].

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     #893.  Seclusion.  Exclusion. —­ N. seclusion, privacy; retirement;
reclusion, recess; snugness &c. adj.; delitescence[obs3]; 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[obs3], inhospitableness &c. adj.; dissociability[obs3];
domesticity, Darby and Joan.
     recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite; anchoret[obs3], anchorite; Simon
Stylites[obs3]; troglodyte, Timon of Athens[obs3], Santon[obs3], solitaire, ruralist[obs3], disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, Diogenes; outcast, Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic[obs3]; wastrel, foundling, wilding[obs3]. 
     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*.
     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[obs3], unpeople[obs3]. 
     Adj. secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent[obs3], 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[obs3]; 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[obs3]; kithless[obs3], friendless, homeless; lorn[obs3], forlorn, desolate.
     unvisited, unintroduced[obs3], 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].