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/ritˈaɪərmənt/ /rɪtˈaɪərmənt/ Listen

noun

Retirement n.

The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. "O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline." "Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books."

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." "Caprea had been the retirement of Augustus."

Synonyms: Solitude; withdrawment; departure; retreat; seclusion; privacy. See Solitude.

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"Retirement" Quotes from Famous Books

... death. But trouble is stirring in both France and England. Cromwell menaces the institution of royalty itself while marching against Charles I, and at home the Fronde is threatening to tear France apart. D'Artagnan brings his friends out of retirement to save the threatened English monarch, but Mordaunt, the son of Milady, who seeks to avenge his mother's death at the musketeers' hands, thwarts their valiant efforts. Undaunted, our heroes return to France just in time to help save the young ...

— Louise de la Valliere • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... period of ten days, which he spent in retirement with his hosts, Joab sallied forth a second time, and caused such bloodshed among the Amalekites that his gory weapon clave to his hand, and his right hand lost all power of independent motion, it could be made to move only in a piece with his arm. He hastened to his lodging place to apply ...

— THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS VOLUME IV BIBLE TIMES AND CHARACTERS - FROM THE EXODUS TO THE DEATH OF MOSES • BY LOUIS GINZBERG

... must be allowed that Mrs. Barry, after her husband's death and her retirement, lived in such a way as to defy slander. For whereas Bell Brady had been the gayest girl in the whole county of Wexford, with half the bachelors at her feet, and plenty of smiles and encouragement for every one ...

— Barry Lyndon • William Makepeace Thackeray

... Turner never repeats himself. One picture is allotted to one truth; the statement is perfectly and gloriously made, and he passes on to speak of a fresh portion of God's revelation.[36] The haze of sunlit rain of this most magnificent picture, the gradual retirement of the dark wood into its depth, and the sparkling and evanescent light which sends its variable flashes on the abbey, figures, foliage, and foam, require no comment—they speak home at once. But there is added to this noble composition an incident which ...

— Modern Painters Volume I (of V) • John Ruskin

... made both before and after the retirement of Sir William Berkeley in 1652 to restrain the frontier barons in their savage attacks on unsuspecting Indian towns. But often the law was too weak and the guilty too strong. Neither the Indians in front of them nor the government behind them had the power ...

— Virginia Under Charles I And Cromwell, 1625-1660 • Wilcomb E. Washburn

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