heremite

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noun

A hermit; an eremite.

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Meanings

nounheremite (plural heremites)

plural heremites · alternative eremite · alternative hermit · alternative heremit

  1. obsoleteA hermit; an eremite.

    Next morn the bishops twain, the heremite, / And all the clerks and priests of less estate, // Did in the middest of the camp unite / Within a place for prayer consecrate.

    1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, iv
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