eremite

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Most scrupulous of painters, he lived like an eremite, relentlessly purged his optic sense of all illusion, all imaginative invention.

From Time Magazine Archive

No eremite of the Thebaid, or the Nitroon, is more completely immured than I find you; and the seclusion from society is quite as deleterious as the want of out-door air and sunshine.

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans

As for endeavoring to force his way out, it was alarming to think of; for aught he knew, the eremite, availing himself of the gloom, might be bristling all over with javelin points.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman

He had been one of the demons who tempted St. Anthony, and retailed anecdotes of that eremite which Euschemon had never heard mentioned in Paradise.

From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Garnett, Richard

The order of scholars has ceased to be mendicant, vagabond, and eremite.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various