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HERMIT , a solitary, one who withdraws from all intercourse with other human beings in order to live a life
life
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
English
English
century , is now chiefly used in poetry or rhetorically, except with reference to the early hermits of the Libyan desert
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
East
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