Meaning | A Christian recluse. | |
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Narrower | anchorite, hermit | One retired from society for religious reasons |
Broader | religious | A member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience |
Opposite | cenobite, coenobite | A member of a religious order living in common |
Spanish | eremita | |
Catalan | eremita | |
Adjectives | eremitic, eremitical | of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living |
eremitic, eremitical | characterized by ascetic solitude |
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