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Meanings of hermit in English
Synonyms
Examples for "eremite"
Examples for "eremite"
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.
Usage of hermit in English
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.
6
But the cunning hermit had no fire in his cabin that night.
7
The lonely hermit was believed and the others followed his wise counsel.
8
You have no idea what a regular old hermit Rob has become.
9
When the king had finished these words, the hermit began to speak:
10
He composed his understanding, and recollected the lessons of the hospitable hermit.
11
The youth took leave of the hermit, and hastened on his way.
12
The hermit king hurled the lance at him when they were near.
13
Now by the time you are there the hermit will be risen.
14
I became a sort of hermit, and lived in a rocky cave.
15
The knight went away on his strange errand, and found the hermit.
16
But the cave is never long void; Gouda ne'er wants a hermit.
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Translations for hermit
Hermit through the time
Hermit across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common