eremite
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Etymology
Origin of eremite
1150–1200; Middle English < Late Latin erēmīta hermit
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Most scrupulous of painters, he lived like an eremite, relentlessly purged his optic sense of all illusion, all imaginative invention.
From Time Magazine Archive
I had unearthed my game at last and discovered my eremite in his mystic seclusion.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.
I think I'd rather hold him in my mind as he is here: a happy eremite; no, a restrained pagan.
From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
Stylitisms, eremite fanaticisms and fakeerisms; spasmodic agonistic posture-makings, and narrow, cramped, morbid, if forever noble wrestlings: all this is not a thing desirable to me.
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas
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
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
