eremitic

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er·e·mite

(âr′ə-mīt′)

A recluse or hermit, especially a religious recluse.

[Middle English, from Late Latin erēmīta; see hermit.]

er′e·mit′ic (-mĭt′ĭk), er′e·mit′i·cal adj.

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Adj.	1.	eremitic - of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living; "eremitic austerities" eremitical cenobitic, cenobitical, coenobitic, coenobitical - of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living
	2.	eremitic - characterized by ascetic solitude; "the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony"; "his hermitic existence" anchoritic, hermitic, hermitical, eremitical unworldly - not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations; "was unworldly and did not greatly miss worldly rewards"- Sheldon Cheney

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