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Encyclopedia Britannica



HERMIT

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 371 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HEG-HIG
HERMIT , a solitary, one who withdraws from all intercourse with other human beings in order to live a
life
  of religious contemplation, and so marked off from a " coenobite " (Gr. xota6s, common, and /3ios,
life
 ), one who shares this life of withdrawal with others in a community (see ASCETICISM and
MONASTICISM
 ). The word " hermit " is an adaptation through the O. Fr. ermite or hermile, from the Lat. form, eremite, of the Gr. ipefrr-s, a solitary, from Eplfia, a
desert
 . The
English
  form " eremite," which was used, according to the New
English
  Dictionary, quite indiscriminately with " hermit " till the middle of the 17th
century
 , is now chiefly used in poetry or rhetorically, except with reference to the early hermits of the Libyan
desert
 , or sometimes to such particular orders as the eremites of St
Augustine
  (see AUGUSTINIAN HERMITS). Another synonym is " anchoret " or " anchorite." This comes through the French and Latin forms from the Gr. avaxwpnlri,s, from avaxwpeiv, to withdraw. A form nearer to the
Greek
 
original
 , " anachoret," is sometimes used of the early Christian recluses in the
East
 .


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