Definition of Hermit

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Hermit

A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives.

A beadsman; one bound to pray for another.

A spiced molasses cooky, often containing chopped raisins and nuts.

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Hermit Quotations

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
Charles Horton Cooley

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
Daniel Day-Lewis

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
James Russell Lowell

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
Jean Cocteau

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
Laurence Sterne

If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.
Richard Foreman

When the devil grows old he turns hermit.
Ludovico Ariosto

Hermit Translations

hermit in Dutch is heremiet, kluizenaar
hermit in French is ermite
hermit in German is Einsiedler
hermit in Hungarian is remete
hermit in Italian is eremita
hermit in Norwegian is eremitt
hermit in Swedish is eremit

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