ARRIVE self-isolation is “no contact with other individuals for a period of time (such as two weeks) during an outbreak of a communicable disease, usually by staying in a person’s home and limiting contact with members of the household. family.” The verb is fairly recent, showing evidence of use only within the last 20 years. This noun had been used sporadically earlier in the 20th century.
Dr Banks added that the Federal government’s investment in him in quarantine has yet to be fully realized, but if people continue to ignore his advice about self-isolation, he will use all its powers. coerced under his command.— New York TimesAugust 10, 1916 (p. 1)
Isolation now commonly found to mean “a restriction on human activities or communication or the movement of goods designed to prevent the spread of disease or pestilence.” The word has a number of other meanings, both ancient and modern, many of which relate to a period of 40 days (possibly derived from the Latin word quadrilateralmeaning “forty”), which includes the 40-day period during which the law allows a widow to remain in her late husband’s main home without paying rent to his heirs, approximately a period of 40 days dedicated to penance or fasting (in early Christian church use), or a general period of 40 days dedicated to a variety of uses.
This army of Pilgrims encountered a great inconvenience: For when the end of their quarantine, or forty-day duty, (the term the Pope gave them in praise of Heaven), they would not stay long. more than that.— Thomas Fuller, History of the holy war1647
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