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Webster 1913 Edition

Heremite

{

Her′e-mit

,

Her′e-mite

, }

Noun.

[See

.]

A hermit.

[Obs.]

Bp. Hall.

Definition 2024

heremite

heremite

English

Alternative forms

eremite, hermit, heremit

Noun

heremite ‎(plural heremites)

(obsolete) A hermit; an eremite.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, iv:
  Next morn the bishops twain, the heremite, / And all the clerks and priests of less estate, // Did in the middest of the camp unite / Within a place for prayer consecrate.