The Only Use of
recluse
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- I sometimes felt a twinge of remorse, when passing by the old place, at ever having taken part in what must have been sheer torment to Arthur Radley—what reasonable recluse wants children peeping through his shutters, delivering greetings on the end of a fishing-pole, wandering in his collards at night?
p. 277.9recluse = person who avoids contact with others
Definitions:
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(1)
(recluse) someone withdrawn from society (living alone and avoiding contact)
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Occasionally, recluse may refer to a venomous spider typically referred to as the brown recluse.