eremite
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- eremitic adjective
- eremitical adjective
- eremitish adjective
- eremitism noun
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
Had he been an eremite of the old sort, the last place in which robbers would have expected to find plunder would be his cell.
From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Around the cell of some eremite like Anthony, who fixed his retreat on Mount Colzim, a number of humble imitators gathered, emulous of his austerities and of his piety.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William
Only an Olive Schreiner could do full justice to your failure, you poor nun, you futile eremite, you absolute and hopeless impasse.
From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Herbert, an eremite, beseeching him that the two may die the same day, he prays accordingly, and they die the same hour.
From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey
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