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- noun Plural form of
eremite .
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Examples
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And genes from them are found in the "eremites" above.
New Findings On Alan Hills Meteorite Point to Microbial Life | Universe Today 2009
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It seemed that the holy man was held in the kind of unofficial reverence common to the old Celtic eremites, for more than one of those questioned spoke of him as Saint Cuthred.
The Hermit of Eyton Forest Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1987
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It seemed that the holy man was held in the kind of unofficial reverence common to the old Celtic eremites, for more than one of those questioned spoke of him as Saint Cuthred.
The Hermit of Eyton Forest Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1987
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QUOTATION: Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars,
Quotations 1919
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We find it in two forms: colonies of eremites on the one hand and actual monasteries on the other.
Monasticism: Its Ideals and History and The Confessions of St. Augustine 1851-1930 1911
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He willingly bowed to "the gentle yoke of Christ" -- thus ran the monkish ritual -- which the life of an eremite among eremites was to impose on him.
Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation 1904
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Well, now, it's this here -- you see me as I am, here in a cave, like one o 'them old eremites that used to be in the ancient days.
Scarhaven Keep 1899
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Might these hilltop eremites have committed some crime or some breach of decorum that effected their banishment from respectable avicular society?
Our Bird Comrades 1896
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The gay redstarts, which seem to be so tame and confiding in the early spring, turn into veritable eremites in the breeding season, seeking the most secluded portions of the woods as their habitat.
Our Bird Comrades 1896
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The eremites, or desert dweller, lives either in retreat as an anchoret, or solitary, monachos, whence "monk;" or in common with others, in a koinobion, as a
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