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Meanings of eremitic in English
Characterized by ascetic solitude.
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Examples for "eremitical"
Examples for "eremitical"
1
He first led an eremitical life in the mountains, near Frejus.
2
Afterwards he led an eremitical life in the isle of Farne, where he died in 669, about eleven years after St. Cuthbert.
3
But gradually small communities of Amoebae arose by the side of these eremitical Protozoa, the sister-cells produced by cleavage remaining joined together.
4
By the advice of a prudent director, he then embraced an eremitical life in a plain called Thole, near the foot of Mount Sinai.
5
HE was born in Ireland, and, retiring into France, led an eremitical life at Limousin, where he acquired great reputation for his sanctity and miracles.
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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.
Usage of eremitic in English
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.