hermit
noun
a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
hermitry
-
a word derived from
hermit.
Example Sentences
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The divorced men Klinenberg interviewed typically had much less active social lives, in some cases verging on workaholism or hermitry.
From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2012
By slow degrees, he had allowed himself to be drawn from his academic hermitry into contact with the visible life around him.
From Queed by Raymond Moreau Crosby
