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
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
I saw Peter, the eremite and coward, dragged back, a deserter, to the plague-smitten camps of Antioch.
From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Lewis Wallace
No eremite of the Thebaid, or the Nitroon, is more completely immured than I find you; and the seclusion from society is quite as deleterious as the want of out-door air and sunshine.
From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Augusta J. Evans Wilson
The personage whom the imperial eremite delighted thus to honor was Francisco Borja, who a few years before had exchanged his dukedom of Gandia for the robe of the order of Jesus.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various
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