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HERMIT , a solitary, one who withdraws from all intercourse with other human beings in See also:

order to live a See also:

LIFE

life of religious contemplation, and so marked off from a " coenobite " (Gr. xota6s, See also:

COMMON

common, and /3ios, life), one who shares this life of withdrawal with others in a community (see See also:

ASCETICISM

ASCETICISM and See also:

MONASTICISM (Gr. p.ovacrnabs, living alone, µ6vos)

MONASTICISM). The word " hermit " is an See also:

ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation through the O. Fr. ermite or hermile, from the See also:

Lat. See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form, eremite, of the Gr. ipeµfrr-s, a solitary, from Eplfµia, a See also:

DESERT

desert. The See also:

ENGLISH

English form " eremite," which was used, according to the New English See also:

DICTIONARY

Dictionary, quite indiscriminately with " hermit " till the See also:

MIDDLE

middle of the 17th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, is now chiefly used in See also:

POETRY

poetry or rhetorically, except with reference to the See also:

early hermits of the Libyan desert, or sometimes to such particular orders as the eremites of St See also:

Augustine (see AUGUSTINIAN HERMITS). Another synonym is " anchoret " or " anchorite." This comes through the See also:

French and Latin forms from the Gr. avaxwpnlri,s, from avaxwpeiv, to withdraw. A form nearer to the See also:

Greek See also:

ORIGINAL

original, " anachoret," is sometimes used of the early See also:

Christian recluses in the See also:

East.

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