eremite
/ˈɛrɪmʌɪt
/noun
A Christian hermit or recluse.The sheer volume of women involved makes Russell look like a Christian eremite from the days of the Desert Fathers....
- A cenobite is usually a monk in a monastery, as opposed to an anchorite, who is a monk living alone (also called an ‘eremite’ or ‘hermit’).
- He lived in the 10th and 11th centuries as an eremite monk near the Sazava River.
Synonyms
hermit, recluse, solitary, ascetic, cenobite
historical anchorite, anchoress, stylite
rare solitudinarian
Derivatives
eremitic
/ adjective ...- On the other they meet Paul the Hermit, the traditional founder of the eremitic life.
- While the saint's dress denotes the eremitic character of the order of friars at S. Andrea, a remarkable and unexampled feature is the fiery red halo shining around Augustine's head.
- In the words of a leading twentieth-century Athonite monk, Fr Theoklitos of Dionysiou, ‘it is the eremitic life that constitutes the primary form of monasticism in the East.’
eremitical
/ adjective ...- When Romanus withdraws into the rugged mountains and takes up life under a pine tree next to a spring, for instance, we see the adaptation of Eastern eremitical forms to the Gallican geographical context.
- Obviously, other Celtic tales incorporate the same division, and one has to ask whether the eremitical movement is really separable from this myth of withdrawal into innocence.
- The best I could find was Raven's Bread - ‘a quarterly newsletter for hermits and those interested in the eremitical life.’
Origin
Middle English: from Old French eremite from late Latin eremita (see hermit).