eremite
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of eremite
1150–1200; Middle English < Late Latin erēmīta hermit
Example Sentences
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Most scrupulous of painters, he lived like an eremite, relentlessly purged his optic sense of all illusion, all imaginative invention.
From Time Magazine Archive
Both have a "demon," but Sartor's is exceedingly fierce, dwelling among the tombs—Wordsworth's a mild eremite, loving the rocks and the woods.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various
But if we fail to take Barlaam, I know of an eremite, Nachor by name, in every way like unto him: it is impossible to distinguish the one from the other.
From Barlaam and Ioasaph by John of Damascus, Saint
Friar Jordan, an Augustinian eremite, held a commission as inquisitor in both sections of Saxony.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles
The holy Jerome knew both Hebrew, Chaldee, Greek, Persian, Median, Arabic and Latin, and the eremite Antonius knew the whole Bible by heart only from hearing it read.
From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Grimmelshausen, Hans Jacob Christoph von
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