Crossword clues for eremite
eremite
- Anchorite
- Ascetic
- St. Simeon Stylites was one
- Holy hermit
- One living alone before having child
- She prays alone before standing on bug
- Isolated figure receiving instructions in middle of week
- In spare time, read about hermit
- Hesitation before Jew needing no introduction becomes a recluse
- Talk of sport - manager missing second half
- Ancient ascetic
- Faithful recluse
- Religious loner
- Many an ascetic
- Cave dweller, e.g
- Benedictine, e.g
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eremite \Er"e*mite\, n. [See Hermit.] A hermit.
Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite.
--Keats.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, learned form of hermit (q.v.) based on Church Latin eremita. Since mid-17c. in poetic or rhetorical use only, except in reference to specific persons in early Church history. Related: Eremitic; eremitical.
Wiktionary
n. A hermit; a religious recluse, someone who lives alone.
WordNet
n. a Christian recluse [ant: cenobite]
Usage examples of "eremite".
I said, "an eremite came among them and counseled the emperor of the yellow army to dress his men in green, and the master of the green army that he should clothe it in yellow.
Around all these autochthons, real and self-imagined, were a score of other figures not less absurd—officers dressed as women and women dressed as soldiers, eclectics as fraudulent as the autochthons, gymnosophists, ablegates and their acolytes, eremites, eidolons, zoanthrops half beast and half human, and deodands and remontados in picturesque rags, with eyes painted wild.
But you and I and our kind, we ascetics and seekers and eremites -- we are not children and are not innocent and cannot be set straight by moralizing sermons.
It seemed that the holy man was held in the kind of unofficial reverence common to the old Celtic eremites, for more than one of those questioned spoke of him as Saint Cuthred.