Word of the Day Archive
Sunday December 21, 2003
eremite \ER-uh-myt\ , noun:
A hermit, especially a religious recluse.
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
Eremite derives from Late Latin eremita, from Greek eremites, "living in the desert," from eremia, "desert," from eremos, "lonely, solitary, desolate."
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