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hermitage

[hur-mi-tij, er-mi-tahzh] / ˈhɜr mɪ tɪdʒ, ˌɛr mɪˈtɑʒ /
NOUN
hideaway
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The manuscript opens with the life of Giovanni of Florence, who built the Augustinian hermitage of Santa Lucia in Larniano with help from local farmers.

From Science Daily Feb. 2, 2026

Unless somebody at Google HQ has just made a fix, Google Maps will tell you incorrectly that the hermitage and lodge are beyond the road closure.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 29, 2025

The hermitage was his summer hideaway, a place for monthslong vacations with family and friends.

From New York Times Mar. 15, 2024

The south peak of Sceilg Mhichíl is 218m high and was used as a hermitage by monks, with the 183m-high lower peak containing the main monastic site.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2022

It was like a forgotten hermitage — the cave hidden beneath the growth, the strange fertility goddess statue of Our Ladybird with her tattered Miss Miss sash in place.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

These ascetics attracted followers, and as a result monasteries and hermitages flourished in less hospitable areas.

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 2023

Lizz Pickard of Colorado is staying at one of the hermitages at Solas Bride this week, the latest of several visits.

From Seattle Times Feb. 1, 2023

Reclusion had a long religious history in China, with Buddhist and Daoist monks and priests establishing hermitages, houses of contemplation, in remote sites.

From New York Times Oct. 7, 2021

His companions were genuine lay brothers, able to lead him through the marshes and waterways to isolated hermitages and priories, where he would be able to plan his next moves.

From BBC Dec. 26, 2020

They have deserted their hermitages and are a very popular order in Italy, devoting themselves especially to preaching and hearing confessions, and form quite a distinct family from the rest.

From The Story of Assisi by Lina Duff Gordon




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