hermitically

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adverb

In the manner of a hermit.

“By his fifties, he had moved out to Alaska and was living quite hermitically.”

Scrabble 22

Meanings

adverb
  1. misconstructionMisconstruction of hermetically (“in an airtight way”).

    When I proofread her draft of the food safety announcement, I corrected *"hermitically sealed" to read correctly as "hermetically sealed".

    1 more example

    The fresh oleoresin was collected using 1.5 mL polyethylene tube for each sample and the tube was hermitically closed and refrigerated until the analysis.

    2015 July 14, “Genome-Wide Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes Associated with the High Yielding of Oleoresin in Secondary Xylem of Masson Pine ( Pinus massoniana Lamb) by Transcriptomic Analysis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
  2. In the manner of a hermit.

    By his fifties, he had moved out to Alaska and was living quite hermitically.

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