Solitude /(?)/

Sol·i·tude

Solitude

n.
  1. state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.
    Whosoever is delighted with solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
    O Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face?
  2. Remoteness from society; destitution of company; seclusion; -- said of places; as, the solitude of a wood.
    The solitude of his little parish is become matter of great comfort to him.
    — Law.
  3. solitary or lonely place; a desert or wilderness.
    In these deep solitudes and awful cells Where heavenly pensive contemplation dwells.
    O blest retirement, friend to life's decline.
    Such only can enjoy the country who are capable of thinking when they are there; then they are prepared for solitude; and in that [the country] solitude is prepared for them.
    It is a place of seclusion from the external world.
    — Bp. Horsley.
    These evils . . . seem likely to reduce it [a city] ere long to the loneliness and the insignificance of a village.
    — Eustace.