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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating or pertaining to, having the character of, or like an eremite or hermit; living in solitude or in seclusion from the world.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to an eremite; hermitical; living in solitude.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Characteristic of a hermit

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living
  • adjective characterized by ascetic solitude

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Examples

  • 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 2010

  • 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 2010

  • 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.

    Court Rules Khodorkovsky's Isolation Was Unlawful 2006

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

    Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

  • 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 2001

  • 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 2001

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

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

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

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

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

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

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

    Explorations ANDERSON, Poul 1981

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