eremite
Example Sentences
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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
Knowledge is no longer a lonely eremite, affording a chance and captivating hospitality to some wandering pilgrim; knowledge is now found in the market-place, a citizen, and a leader of citizens.
From Canada and the States by E. W. (Edward William) Watkin
The order of scholars has ceased to be mendicant, vagabond, and eremite.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various
The seclusion was individual—the man was an eremite.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Morris Jastrow
I saw Peter, the eremite and coward, dragged back, a deserter, to the plague-smitten camps of Antioch.
From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Lewis Wallace
