eremite

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Knowledge is no longer a lonely eremite, affording a chance and captivating hospitality to some wandering pilgrim; knowledge is now found in the market-place, a citizen, and a leader of citizens.

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  1. noun A recluse or hermit, especially a religious recluse.

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  • They loped, three meters at a loose-limbed step, toward a dendro-eremite, a lone small tree in the wave-swept grass, bare branches upheld like prayers. —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
  • The idea of a luncheon group such as this would never have crossed his mind eremite, —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • 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. —  The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales
  • Knowledge is no longer a lonely eremite, affording a chance and captivating hospitality to some wandering pilgrim; knowledge is now found in the market-place, a citizen, and a leader of citizens. —  Canada and the States
  • More blest the life of godly eremite, —  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
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  1. Middle English, from Late Latin erēmīta; see hermit.

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  1. Formerly also eremit; = Dutch eremiet, heremiet = G. Danish Swedish eremit = French ermite, hermite (whence the older English forms ermit, hermit, now only hermit) = Provencal ermita = Italian eremita (cf. Provencal hermitan = Spanish ermitaño = Portuguese ermitão, from Middle Latin eremitanus), from Late Latin eremita, from Greek ἐρημίτης, a hermit, properly adjective, of the desert, from ἐρημία, a solitude, desert, wilderness, from ἐρῆμος, desolate, lonely, solitary, desert; prob. akin to ἠρέμα, stilly, quietly, gently, slowly, Lithuanian ramu, quiet, tranquil, Gothic (Moesogothic) rimis, n., quiet, Sanskrit √ ram, rest, find pleasure in: see hermit, a doublet of eremite.
 

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