† hermitressn.
Obsolete.
= hermitess n.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun] > person > woman
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Hermitresse, an Hermitresse; a woman Hermite.
?1614 W. Drummond Sonnet: Alexis here shee stay'd in Poems Among these Pines, Sweet Hermitresse did alone repaire.
1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 14 221 He allows Hazlitt unrelentingly to parade such words as ‘Heremitress’.
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