noun. A recluse or hermit, especially a religious recluse.

noun. One who lives in a wilderness or in retirement; a hermit.

noun. Specifically In church hist., in the earlier period, a Christian who, to escape persecution, fled to a solitary place, and there led a life of contemplation and asceticism.

noun. Synonyms See anchoret.

Eremitic.

noun. A hermit.

noun. A hermit; a religious recluse, someone who lives alone.

noun. a Christian recluse

"A Gentleman refers to Cordelia in eremite terms: she "redeems inlet from a ubiquitous curse" of sinfulness so dramatically demonstrated in Lear's elder daughters."

eremetic  eremitical  hermit  

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anchorite  hermit  

Brahmana  Brahmin  Zulu  akoontala  anchoret  

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