heremite

English

Alternative forms

eremite, hermit, heremit

Noun

heremite (plural heremites)

(obsolete) A hermit; an eremite.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, iv:
  Next morn the bishops twain, the heremite, / And all the clerks and priests of less estate, // Did in the middest of the camp unite / Within a place for prayer consecrate.

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