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Meaning of EREMITIC

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 Definition: 
  1. [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"
  2. [adj]  characterized by ascetic solitude; "the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony"; "his hermitic existence"
  3. [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
 
 Antonyms: cenobitic, cenobitical, coenobitic, coenobitical
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 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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