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Webster 1913 Edition
Retirement
Re-tire′ment
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
retirement
.] 1.
The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion;
as, the
. retirement
of an officerO, blest
Retirement
, friend of life’s decline. Goldsmith.
Retirement
, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson.
2.
A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode.
[Archaic]
This coast full of princely
retirements
for the sumptousness of their buildings and nobleness of the plantations. Evelyn.
Caprea had been the
retirement
of Augustus. Addison.
Syn. – Solitude; withdrawment; departure; retreat; seclusion; privacy. See
Solitude
. Webster 1828 Edition
Retirement
RETI'REMENT
, n.1.
The act of withdrawing from company or from public notice or station.2.
The state of being withdrawn; as the retirement of the mind from the senses.3.
Private abode; habitation secluded from much society or from public life.Caprea had been the retirement of Augustus.
Retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
4.
Private way of life.Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, progressive virtue and approving heaven.