eremitic

• “Kevin Blanco, meanwhile, having taken his rec pen hostage, is perched on top of that basketball hoop with an air of eremitic remoteness.”

  Prison Porn

• “Khodorkovsky was also forced into lead an eremitic existence after committing the relatively venial sin of drinking tea in an unauthorized place--though this ruling sounds as though it may be a little harder to overturn.”

  Forbes: Court Rules Khodorkovsky's Isolation Was Unlawful

• “Misanthropic and eremitic, He was scruffy, ill-mannered, unemployable, and only went out after dark.”

  Captain Corelli's Mandolin

• “In the first half of the 4th century Pachomius (c. 290–346) established cenobitic (communal, in contrast to eremitic) monasteries for men and for women in Upper Egypt.”

  b. The Early Church

• “Basil of Caesarea (330–79), a leading Greek theologian, attacked the eremitic life, because of the impossibility of material self-sufficiency, the excessive concern with the self, and the lack of opportunity for the exercise of charity; he espoused cenobitism, which eventually became the common form of monasticism in the West.”

  b. The Early Church

• “It was an Egyptian by the name of Anthony who became the father of the eremitic life.”

  Simon & Schuster: World’s Great Men of Color

• “Quite a few Rangers were eremitic types, sane enough but basically schizoid.”

  Explorations

• “The outline of the Greek story is as follows: -- St Thomas had converted the people of India, and after the eremitic life originated in Egypt, many”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"

• “Solitude may be twofold: the seclusion of the cloister, which implies restriction of intercourse with the outer world; and the eremitic confinement of the cell, a practice which varies in different orders.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery

• “The councils and the monastic rules did not encourage those who were desirous of leading an eremitic life.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability

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