Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Remote or difficult to get to; isolated.
- adjective Set apart from or prevented from having from contact with others.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Secluded; private; retired.
- Separated from others; being sent or having gone into retirement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Retired; secluded.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
sequester . - adjective Something that has
already beenseparated .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective kept separate and secluded
- adjective providing privacy or seclusion
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Examples
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But that fact hides dramatic income inequality: while wealthy citizens live luxuriously in sequestered Guatemala City neighborhoods, the poor are barely noticed, living like feudal peasants in the countryside.
Hungry in Guatemala 2009
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He goes completely out of his way to try and keep her sequestered from the rest of the crew while he hustles to get a male replacement sent up.
Short Story Break: Heinlein & Tiptree « A Working Title 2009
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But that fact hides dramatic income inequality: while wealthy citizens live luxuriously in sequestered Guatemala City neighborhoods, the poor are barely noticed, living like feudal peasants in the countryside.
Hungry in Guatemala 2009
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Spas used to conjure up visions of rich, fortysomething women, slathered, pummeled and anointed, sequestered from the world while a plastic surgeon's handiwork healed among plush surroundings, granola farms in Battle Creek, or extreme fitness.
Live Better South of the Border & Spas and Hot Springs of Mexico 2007
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Spas used to conjure up visions of rich, fortysomething women, slathered, pummeled and anointed, sequestered from the world while a plastic surgeon's handiwork healed among plush surroundings, granola farms in Battle Creek, or extreme fitness.
Live Better South of the Border & Spas and Hot Springs of Mexico 2007
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How long wilt thou keep thy son Kamar al-Zaman sequestered from the eyes of the folk?
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THE house they had taken was quiet, and sequestered from the noise of the streets, and had a small garden attached to it.
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They live retired and sequestered from the eyes of their fellow-citizens.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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They knew the bench; it was "sequestered" -- they had praised it for that together, before, and liked the word; and after they had begun to linger there they could have smiled (if they hadn't been really too serious, and if the question hadn't so soon ceased to matter), over the probable wonder of the others as to what would have become of them.
The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879
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They knew the bench; it was "sequestered" -- they had praised it for that together, before, and liked the word; and after they had begun to linger there they could have smiled (if they hadn't been really too serious, and if the question hadn't so soon ceased to matter), over the probable wonder of the others as to what would have become of them.
The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879
sparklya commented on the word sequestered
Sheltered, retired, secluded.
May 2, 2008
shanvrolijk commented on the word sequestered
"My one-and-a-half-times veiled (once by the sequestered school and another half by the head scarf), newly pious self appeared sufficiently recalcitrant."
Source: Putting on the Veil: Boys Invade an All-Girls School
January 22, 2018