hermitical
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She, too, had no doubt been terrified into that hermitical retirement—among the señoritas now universal.
From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Mayne Reid
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.
From Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
A somewhat shy and hermitical being we take him to be, and more a student of his own heart than of men.
From The Function of the Poet and Other Essays by James Russell Lowell
A hundred years of expansion in the surrounding land had acted inversely with the little hamlet, and had pinched it into a hermitical isolation.
From Thoroughbreds by William Alexander Fraser
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.
From The Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore by P. (Patrick) Power
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