Meaning of EREMITIC
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- [adj] 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"
- [adj] characterized by ascetic solitude; "the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony"; "his hermitic existence"
- [adj] of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living; "eremitic austerities"
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| Synonyms: | | anchoritic, eremitical, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical, lone(a), solitary, unsocial, unworldly |
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| Antonyms: | | cenobitic, cenobitical, coenobitic, coenobitical | |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \Er`e*mit"ic\, Eremitical \Er`e*mit"ic*al\, a.
Of or pertaining to an eremite; hermitical; living in
solitude. ``An eremitical life in the woods.'' --Fuller.
``The eremitic instinct.'' --Lowell.
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