Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of hermit, approximating eremite.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A hermit.

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Examples

  • King Alexander come in Sanct Colmes Inche; quhair he was constrainit, be violent tempest, to remane thre dayis, sustenand his life with skars fude, be ane heremit that dwelt in the said inche: in quhilk, he had ane litill chapell, dedicat in the honoure of Sanct Colme.

    Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840

  • Alexander, becaus his life was saiffit be this heremit, biggit ane Abbay of Chanonis regular, in the honour of Sanct Colme; and dotat it with sindry landes and rentis, to sustene the abbot and convent thairof. "[

    Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840

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