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Meanings of eremite in English
Antonyms
Examples for "cenobite"
Examples for "cenobite"
1
Brother Paphnutius, I am but a miserable sinner, but I have found, in my long life, that the cenobite has no foe worse than sadness.
2
At that, Harry felt the Cenobite's thaumaturgic grip on his body released.
3
He ushered the Cenobite into the chamber, gesturing frantically all the while.
4
The Cenobite offered a subtle approving nod, and together they stepped inside.
5
Cenobites, or monks, who formed communities and lived under a common roof.
Usage of eremite in English
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.
6
The higher classes living, here and there, in separate households; but not as eremites.
7
A similar attitude on the part of eremites of culture is not unknown to-day.
8
Why, Pythagoras was an Eremite, and under ground for seven years; and his daughter was an abbess.
9
I suppose if I was one of those Old Testament eremites, I'd say I need a sign.
10
Augustinian Canons (Canons Regular); Assumptionists; Eremites; Friars; nuns
11
Or is it because the founders no longer invoke Saint Anthony the Eremite when the bronze is boiling in the furnace?
12
How bitterly he regretted now that he had not accustomed himself in his youth, like other famous eremites, to eat grass.
13
"That is our secret, fair sportsman," answered Amaranthe; "but it seems you also live retired-aneremite forlorn."