Person who lives in seclusion from society.
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Examples for "hermit "
Examples for "hermit "
1 Even on the hermit in the cave he forces his obnoxious presence.
2 Here the Demon tempts or destroys the hermit in his solitary cell.
3 I was, in fact, touched by the mild mania of the hermit .
4 The hermit followed suit; drawing his feet rather awkwardly under his gunny-sacking.
5 That night he found hospitable housing in the cell of a hermit .
1 A game. In his voice was all the unconscious distaste of the ascetic and the eremite .
2 I, whom nature meant for an eremite , have no business in kings' chambers such as these.
3 A priest in eremite guise:
4 He had been one of the demons who tempted St. Anthony, and retailed anecdotes of that eremite which Euschemon had never heard mentioned in Paradise.
5 He willingly bowed to "the gentle yoke of Christ"-thusran the monkish ritual-whichthe life of an eremite among eremites was to impose on him.
1 The Spirituals began to seek relief in a return to the eremitic life.
2 St. Thomas had converted the people of India to the truth; and after the eremitic life originated in Egypt many in India adopted it.
1 Consciously or inadvertently, I had picked a drinker's hermitic paradise at the observatory.
2 For years, he and his wife, Gay, had been leading a near- hermitic life in the high desert of Arizona.
1 They're both ' ermits , and 'ermits are terrible when they get excited.
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