Word of the DaySaturday, July 21, 2001
eremite
\ER-uh-myt\ , noun:1.
A hermit, especially a religious recluse.
Quotes:
He is in the private cave of his freedom, an eremite, a solitary; he orders his mind as he pleases.
-- Cynthia Ozick, "Writers Domestic and Demonic", New York Times, March 25, 1984
Origin:
Eremite derives from Late Latin eremita, from Greek eremites, "living in the desert," from eremia, "desert," from eremos, "lonely, solitary, desolate."
