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hermit

 or eremite

Individual who shuns society to live in solitude, often for religious reasons. The first Christian hermits appeared in Egypt in the 3rd century AD, escaping persecution by withdrawing to the desert and leading a life of prayer and penance. The first hermit was probably Paul of Thebes c. AD 250. Other famous hermits included St. Anthony of Egypt, who established an early form of Christian monasticism in the 4th century, and the pillar hermit Simeon Stylites. The communal life of monasteries eventually tempered the austerities of the hermit's life. In Western Christianity the eremitic life died out, but it has persisted in Eastern Christianity.

eremite
a Christian hermit or recluse


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The new monastery was at that early stage just a modest farm with a dormitory rather than properly eremitic structures.
Out of Great Silence: a Carthusian interlude by Pease, William J. / Commonweal
Penelope had justified doubts about whether John could tolerate her independence and her type of bohemianism, which was nomadic and eremitic, where his was raffishly social.
Betje life by Dean, Paul / New Criterion
Stieglecker suggests that with this panegyric Brant expressed in a humanist mode his admiration for the eremitic life and advocated a rejection of materialism to his non-eremitic readers.
Roland Stieglecker. Die Renaissance eines Heiligen: Sebastian Brant ... by Collins, David J. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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