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Of or pertaining to an eremite; hermitical; living in solitude.
The eremitic Religious is one who lives the life of a hermit, that is, largely on his or her own. Hermits usually live singly, but may live in an eremitic community, where they meet together for prayer on some occasions during each day.
a monastic vocation in which individuals withdrew from the world to live as solitary religious; from the Greek eremos, meaning desert
of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living; "eremitic austerities"
characterized by ascetic solitude; "the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony"; "his hermitic existence"
characterized by or preferring solitude in mode of life; "the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony"; "a lone wolf"; "a man of a solitary disposition"
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