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
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 Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)
Oft didst thou thread the woods in vain To find what bird had piped the strain:— Seek not, and the little eremite Flies gayly forth and sings in sight.
From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
There the eremite Serapion in a cave had made his bed; There the faithful bands of pilgrims sought his blessing, brought him bread.
From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Van Dyke, Henry
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)
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