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hermitical

ADJECTIVE
  1. characterized by ascetic solitude
    the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony
    his hermitic existence

How To Use hermitical In A Sentence

  • He had hoped to meet Simon by now, in the pub or somewhere, but the lad seemed to lead a hermitical existence apart from going out with the girl, whatever her name was. The Fifth Rapunzel
  • Contrast his public services with his public and private vices, and see what he is -- the despised of the whole world, eking out a miserable existence in hermitical seclusion with a woman of ill-fame. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest
  • But in the second spring of my hermitical life a report was circulated that the Countess, with her husband, was coming to spend the summer on her estate. The Shot
  • When he inherits an estate in the countryside from his uncle, he moves there and starts to lead a rather hermitical life, only pulled into society by his friend Vladimir Lensky, an idealistic young poet. Stuff
  • A hundred years of expansion in the surrounding land had acted inversely with the little hamlet, and had pinched it into a hermitical isolation. Thoroughbreds
  • a resplendent monastery; he remained in that place a year and six months more leading a hermitical life. Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore
  • In his “Society and Solitude” Emerson has drawn a picture of Hawthorne as the lover of a hermitical life; a picture only representing that side of his character, and developed after Emerson's fashion to an artistic extreme. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • He took with him there a few monks and built a resplendent monastery; he remained in that place a year and six months more leading a hermitical life. Lives of SS Declan and Mochuda
  • In his "Society and Solitude" Emerson has drawn a picture of Hawthorne as the lover of a hermitical life; a picture only representing that side of his character, and developed after Emerson's fashion to an artistic extreme. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Then take them out of th matrass and hang them in mercurial water, where they will moisten, swell, and assume their Oriental beauty; after which shift them into a matrass hermitically closed to prevent any water coming to them, and let it down into a well, to continue there about eight days. Arabian nights. English
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