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Sequestered   /sɪkwˈɛstərd/   Listen
Sequestered

adjective
1.
Providing privacy or seclusion.  Synonyms: cloistered, reclusive, secluded.  "Sat close together in the sequestered pergola" , "Sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree" , "A secluded romantic spot"
2.
Kept separate and secluded.



Sequester

verb
(past & past part. sequestered; pres. part. sequestering)
1.
Requisition forcibly, as of enemy property.
2.
Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority.  Synonyms: attach, confiscate, impound, seize.  "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment" , "The police confiscated the stolen artwork"
3.
Undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion.
4.
Keep away from others.  Synonyms: seclude, sequestrate, withdraw.
5.
Set apart from others.  Synonyms: isolate, keep apart, sequestrate, set apart.






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"Sequestered" Quotes from Famous Books



... heart. It may be appointed for you to die in early prime, when the purpose of your life seems unfulfilled; or to live a sequestered life, banished to the Patmos of exile and suffering, dying after long years. But in any case, your Saviour has contrived and adjusted all. And He will send the Angel of His Presence with you, to help you, and to bring you to the place that ...
— Love to the Uttermost - Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. • F. B. Meyer

... civil strife burst forth fiercer than ever. The court had prepared for massacre, not for war; and while the king was receiving the felicitations of the courts of Spain and Rome, he was forced by the Peace of La Rochelle to concede liberty of conscience to the Protestants and to restore their sequestered estates and offices. After two years of agony of mind and remorse, Charles IX. lay dying of consumption, abandoned by all save his faithful Huguenot nurse. The blood flowing from his nostrils seemed a token of God's ...
— The Story of Paris • Thomas Okey

... moderation and philosophy of his temper, and he lived content, with a small salary and laborious duty, in the obscure lot of minister of Crassy, in the mountains that separate the Pays de Vaud from the county of Burgundy. In the solitude of a sequestered village he bestowed a liberal and even learned education on his only daughter. She surpassed his hopes by her proficiency in the sciences and languages; and in her short visits to some relations at Lausanne, the wit, the beauty and erudition of Mademoiselle Curchod were the ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)--Great Britain and Ireland II • Various

... turf. A quail's nest I had never seen, and to be shown one within the hunting-ground of this murderous hawk would be a double pleasure. Such a quiet, secluded, grass-grown highway as we moved along was itself a rare treat. Sequestered was the word that the little valley suggested, and peace the feeling the road evoked. The farmer, whose fields lay about us, half grown with weeds and bushes, evidently did not make stir or noise enough to disturb anything. Beside this rustic ...
— Bird Stories from Burroughs - Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs • John Burroughs

... best part of her life among flocks and herds, resided in her latter days in the town of Aberdeen. She was possest of a most tenacious memory, which retained all the songs she had heard from nurses and country-women in that sequestered part of the country. Being maternally fond of my children, when young, she had them much about her, and delighted them with her songs, and tales of chivalry. My youngest daughter, Mrs Brown, at Falkland, is blest with a memory as good as her aunt, and has almost the whole of her songs ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) • Walter Scott


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