hermitical

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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 Fraser, William Alexander

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 Lowell, James Russell

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 Power, P. (Patrick)

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 Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich

Contrast his public services with his public and private vices, and see what he is—the despised of the whole world, eking out a miserable existence in hermitical seclusion with a woman of ill-fame.

From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by Sparks, William Henry