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  • noun Plural form of solitary.

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Examples

  • These early solitaries fled to the desert and took up residence in caves and near the oases of the Red Sea desert, putting their worldly comforts and egos aside, seeking a goal of spiritual enlightenment.

    Norris J. Chumley, Ph.D.: The Compelling Spiritual Discipline Of Asceticism Ph.D. Norris J. Chumley 2011

  • These early solitaries fled to the desert and took up residence in caves and near the oases of the Red Sea desert, putting their worldly comforts and egos aside, seeking a goal of spiritual enlightenment.

    Norris J. Chumley, Ph.D.: The Compelling Spiritual Discipline Of Asceticism Ph.D. Norris J. Chumley 2011

  • I know it will take time to find the right witches who can do this, but I can help you find solitaries or those disaffected by the organization.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • Tóibín's solitaries, whose minds are "filled with their own histories", are also desperate to "evade, erase, forget".

    The Empty Family by Colm Tóibín – Review Hermione Lee 2010

  • Some of them lived in strict separation hermits and cave-dwellers others lived in loose associations -- the somewhat paradoxical idea of a community of solitaries.

    Norris J. Chumley, Ph.D.: The Compelling Spiritual Discipline Of Asceticism Ph.D. Norris J. Chumley 2011

  • I know it will take time to find the right witches who can do this, but I can help you find solitaries or those disaffected by the organization.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • I know it will take time to find the right witches who can do this, but I can help you find solitaries or those disaffected by the organization.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • Some of them lived in strict separation hermits and cave-dwellers others lived in loose associations -- the somewhat paradoxical idea of a community of solitaries.

    Norris J. Chumley, Ph.D.: The Compelling Spiritual Discipline Of Asceticism Ph.D. Norris J. Chumley 2011

  • Far from being the solitaries of popular mythology, their associations with one another, sometimes ecstatically happy, sometimes painfully fraught, were vitally important, to their daily lives and to their work.

    Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives by Daisy Hay 2010

  • At any time, these solitaries might find themselves eclipsed by a parade of members from the tongue-in-cheek social club the Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus, which met in the Hall of Comparative Ovations to receive instructions from the Noble Grand Humbug and serve as cochairmen on the Most Important Committee.

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

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