recluse

RECLU'SE, a.

Shut up; sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; as a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life.

I all the live-long day consume in meditation deep, recluse from human converse.

RECLU'SE, n.

1. A person who live in retirement or seclusion from intercourse with the world; as a hermit or monk.

2. A person who confines himself to a cell in a monastery.