reclusion

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Both him and Mr Yoo, for instance, were financially supported by their parents when they were in reclusion.

From BBC • May 26, 2023

As for solitude, reclusion didn’t strictly require it.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2021

The dangerous, funny, possibly misanthropic elusiveness of the lyrics was matched by Becker and Fagen's relative reclusion as pop personalities.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2017

And Thomas Pynchon's mythic reclusion was further burnished by the acceptance for the National Book award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.

From The Guardian • Mar. 1, 2013

The details she gives about her own sick-room exclude the idea of that stricter "reclusion" which is popularly spoken of as "walling-up"—not of course in the mythical sense.

From The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) by Tyrrell, George