Eremite Definition

ârə-mīt
noun
A religious recluse; hermit.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Eremite

Noun

Singular:
eremite
Plural:
eremites

Origin of Eremite

  • From Late Latin eremita, from Ancient Greek ἐρημίτης (erēmitēs), from ἐρημία (erēmia, “desert”), from ἐρῆμος (erēmos, “uninhabited”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Late Latin erēmīta hermit

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Eremite Sentence Examples

  • At this time Barlaam, an eremite of great sanctity and knowledge, dwelling in the wilderness of Sennaritis, divinely warned, travels to India in the disguise of a merchant, and gains access to Prince Josaphat, to whom he imparts the Christian doctrine and commends the monastic life.

  • The English form "eremite," which was used, according to the New English Dictionary, quite indiscriminately with "hermit" till the middle of the 17th century, is now chiefly used in poetry or rhetorically, except with reference to the early hermits of the Libyan desert, or sometimes to such particular orders as the eremites of St Augustine (see Augustinian Hermits).

  • Zwilling, a young Augustinian Eremite, added his fiery denunciations.

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