Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining or suited to a hermit or to retired life; eremitical (the more common word).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or suited for, a hermit.
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- adjective Pertaining to a
hermit ;reclusive .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by ascetic solitude
Etymologies
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Examples
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He had hoped to meet Simon by now, in the pub or somewhere, but the lad seemed to lead a hermitical existence apart from going out with the girl, whatever her name was.
The Fifth Rapunzel Gill, B. M. 1991
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He took with him there a few monks and built a resplendent monastery; he remained in that place a year and six months more leading a hermitical life.
Lives of SS Declan and Mochuda Anonymous 1914
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But in the second spring of my hermitical life a report was circulated that the Countess, with her husband, was coming to spend the summer on her estate.
The Shot 1907
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In his “Society and Solitude” Emerson has drawn a picture of Hawthorne as the lover of a hermitical life; a picture only representing that side of his character, and developed after Emerson's fashion to an artistic extreme.
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Stearns, Frank P 1906
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A hundred years of expansion in the surrounding land had acted inversely with the little hamlet, and had pinched it into a hermitical isolation.
Thoroughbreds William Alexander Fraser 1896
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In his "Society and Solitude" Emerson has drawn a picture of Hawthorne as the lover of a hermitical life; a picture only representing that side of his character, and developed after Emerson's fashion to an artistic extreme.
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Frank Preston Stearns 1881
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Contrast his public services with his public and private vices, and see what he is -- the despised of the whole world, eking out a miserable existence in hermitical seclusion with a woman of ill-fame.
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But in the second spring of my hermitical life a report was circulated that the Countess, with her husband, was coming to spend the summer on her estate.
Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol 1830
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When he inherits an estate in the countryside from his uncle, he moves there and starts to lead a rather hermitical life, only pulled into society by his friend Vladimir Lensky, an idealistic young poet.
Stuff kalafudra 2010
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a resplendent monastery; he remained in that place a year and six months more leading a hermitical life.
Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore Anonymous
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