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Definition of Eremitic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living. "Eremitic austerities"

2. Adjective. Characterized by ascetic solitude. "His hermitic existence"

Definition of Eremitic

1. a. Of or pertaining to an eremite; hermitical; living in solitude.

Definition of Eremitic

1. Adjective. Characteristic of a hermit ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Eremitic

1. eremite [adj] - See also: eremite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eremitic

erector spinae muscles erectors erectour erects ered erelong eremacausis eremean eremetic eremic

eremitage eremitages eremital eremite eremites eremitic (current term) eremitical eremitish eremitism eremitisms

eremophilia eremophobia eremuri eremurus eremuruses erenow erepsin erepsins ereption eres

Literary usage of Eremitic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"But the eremitic life proper really begins only in the time of the persecutions. The first known example is that of St. Paul, whose biography was written by ..."

2. Letter to His Excellency Patrick Noble, Governor of South Carolina, on the by Francis Lieber (1838)
"One of the latest penitentiaries on the eremitic plan, is the Philadelphia ... its discipline; while the eremitic system allows of much greater extent, ..."

3. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"On the comparative excellency of the eremitic or of the ... Sozomen calls the eremitic life the " peak of philosophy " (HE vi. 31 ). ..."

4. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1893)
"OD the comparative excellency of the eremitic or of the ... Sozomen calls the eremitic life the " peak of philosophy " (UE vi. 31). ..."

5. The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy by Pennsylvania Prison Society (1848)
"It is no systematic defence of the eremitic system, or entire theory of punishment. Our author had another object in his view. ..."

6. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Comprising the History, Institutions by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1875)
"2> On the comparative excellency of the eremitic of the ... Sozomen calls the eremitic life the «ale of philosophy " (HE vi. 31 ). Chrysostom 1 Basil speak ..."

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