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Eremitic

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er·e·mite  (âr-mt)
n.
A recluse or hermit, especially a religious recluse.
[Middle English, from Late Latin ermta; see hermit.]
ere·mitic (-mtk), ere·miti·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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Stieglecker suggests that with this panegyric Brant expressed in a humanist mode his admiration for the eremitic life and advocated a rejection of materialism to his non-eremitic readers.
Roland Stieglecker. Die Renaissance eines Heiligen: Sebastian Brant ... by Collins, David J. / Renaissance Quarterly
More crucially, there was the almost universally accepted story that Mary Magdalen, along with her brother Lazarus and her sister Martha, had evangelized all of Provence until she took up the eremitic life in the Maritime Alps.
The Making of the Magdalen by Cunningham, Lawrence S. / Commonweal
The policy now was to put small fires out--every single one of them--before they became big fires, a patriotic duty easily justified after several years of Smokey Bear propaganda and further promoted by public-relations films and news stories: Eremitic rangers scanned the horizon from their fire towers for any wisp of smoke.
Smokey's revenge by Little, Charles / American Forests
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