eremite
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of eremite
1150–1200; Middle English < Late Latin erēmīta hermit
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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
Ingram, we now admit that Poe was neither a drunkard, a debauchee, nor a cynical eremite.
From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Arnold Bennett
As for Henrietta she had long ago earned from her husband's friends the name of the "little nun," the "little eremite" because nothing could entice her from her seclusion.
From The Poor Plutocrats by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
When the hermit was swept away, into his place as counsellor of the troubled stepped the witch, and to her those had recourse who had previously sought the eremite.
From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
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 Henry Charles Lea
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