The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hermitess
Hermitess \Her"mit*ess\, n.
A female hermit.
--Coleridge.
Wiktionary
hermitess
n. A female hermit.
Usage examples of "hermitess".
And you must have Fifth Business because he is the one who knows the secret of the hero's birth, or comes to the assistance of the heroine when she thinks all is lost, or keeps the hermitess in her cell, or may even be the cause of somebody's death if that is part of the plot.
Father and the twins were still watching me, so I began to renovate mother's cottage that winter, largely to persuade them that I was taking my supposed career as a hermitess very seriously.