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A person living in solitude, especially for religious contemplation.
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- solitary eremite
- eremite’s cell
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An eremite occupied the ruined cell.
The villagers left food for the eremite.
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Primary category: gothic. Forms: Singular eremite; plural eremites. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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