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3. How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people.Lam. i. 1. Let that night be solitary; let no joyful voice come therein.Job iii. 7. Solitary Solitude Whosoever is delighted with solitude is either a wild beast or a god.Bacon. O Solitude! where are the charmsCowper. The solitude of his little parish is become matter of great comfort to him.Law. In these deep solitudes and awful cellsPope. Syn. Loneliness; soitariness; loneness; retiredness; recluseness. Solitude, Retirement, Seclusion, Loneliness. Retirement is a withdrawal from general society, implying that a person has been engaged in its scenes. Solitude describes the fact that a person is alone; seclusion, that he is shut out from others, usually by his own choice; loneliness, that he feels the pain and oppression of being alone. Hence, retirement is opposed to a gay, active, or public life; solitude, to society; seclusion, to freedom of access on the part of others; and loneliness, enjoyment of that society which the heart demands. O blest retirement, friend to life's decline.Goldsmith. Such only can enjoy the country who are capable of thinking when they are there; then they are prepared for solitude; and in that [the country] solitude is prepared for them.Dryden. It is a place of seclusion from the external world.Bp. Horsley. These evils . . . seem likely to reduce it [a city] ere long to the loneliness and the insignificance of a village.Eustace. Solivagant |
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