heremite

English

Alternative forms

• eremite, hermit, heremit

Noun

heremite (plural heremites)

1. (obsolete) A hermit; an eremite.
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, iv:

     Next morn the bishops twain, the heremite, / And all the clerks and priests of less estate, // Did in the middest of the camp unite / Within a place for prayer consecrate.