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eremitical

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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.eremitical - of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living; "eremitic austerities"
eremitic
2.eremitical - characterized by ascetic solitude; "the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony"; "his hermitic existence"
anchoritic, hermitic, hermitical, eremitic
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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This fifteenth-century Swiss eremitical superstar was written about furiously by contemporaries of many diverse ideological stripes.
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This led some devoted souls to reimagine monastic life, others to test the eremitical vocation, the life of poverty, or the imposition of a regular life on canons.
Pathways to Re-Creating Religious Communities by Cunningham, Lawrence S. / Commonweal
The Capuchins, a new order prominent in Gregory XIII's Rome, had eremitical aspirations, and the altarpiece in the pope's own chapel featured the proto-hermits Saints Anthony and Paul the Abbot).
Christian pessimism on the walls of the Vatican Galleria delle carte ... by Goffart, Walter / Renaissance Quarterly
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