recluding

And, surely, no woman who knows that of herself can be rightly censured for not recluding herself from the world: it is only women without the power to love who have no right to provoke men's love.

Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

And, surely, no woman who knows that of herself can be rightly censured for not recluding herself from the world: it is only women without the power to love who have no right to provoke men's love.

Zuleika Dobson 1911

Now a man may counterfeit the plague in a vow, and mistake a disease for religion, by such a retiring and recluding of himself from all men as to do good to no man, to converse with no man.

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601