All 9 Uses

recluse
in
Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II
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This jousts was done to-fore the hermitage where a recluse dwelled.†
Book 13 *

recluse = someone withdrawn from society (living alone and avoiding contact)
Let us spere some tidings, said Percivale, at yonder recluse.†
Book 13
When Sir Percivale came to the recluse she knew him well enough, and Sir Launcelot both.†
Book 13
CHAPTER I. How Sir Percivale came to a recluse and asked counsel, and how she told him that she was his aunt.†
Book 14
NOW saith the tale, that when Sir Launcelot was ridden after Sir Galahad, the which had all these adventures above said, Sir Percivale turned again unto the recluse, where he deemed to have tidings of that knight that Launcelot followed.†
Book 14
And so he kneeled at her window, and the recluse opened it and asked Sir Percivale what he would.†
Book 14
When the recluse heard his name she had great joy of him, for mickle she had loved him to-fore any other knight, for she ought to do so, for she was his aunt.†
Book 14
So on the morn Sir Percivale went to the recluse and asked her if she knew that knight with the white shield.†
Book 14
Then he took his horse, and armed him; and as he rode by the way he saw a chapel where was a recluse, which had a window that she might see up to the altar.†
Book 15

Definitions:

(1) (recluse)
someone withdrawn from society (living alone and avoiding contact)
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Occasionally, recluse may refer to a venomous spider typically referred to as the brown recluse.