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It was regarded as hermitic by the rest of the Commonwealth.

He returned to Cyprus, but still wanted to pursue the hermitic life.

Trying to decide between a slice of lively sand and hermitic retreat?

At first he lives a hermitic existence in an obscure tract of the castle.

Balakirev had grown increasingly hermitic at this point of his life.

She knew that many members of the hermitic Pennsylvania sect were suffering from manic depression.

The earliest records date from the construction of the hermitic Gangtok monastery in 1716.

His life grew even more hermitic.

Still, her life seems hermitic.

In reality, Ro thought, she had lived an almost hermitic existence, at least in terms of relationships.

As befitting his hermitic lifestyle, Picard had let his beard grow.

Miriam and Beatrice, like so many of Brookner's creations, are willfully hermitic.

The prophets and their disciples were ascetic to the extreme including many examples of fasting and hermitic living conditions.

Jeremy, Gary's hermitic roommate.

A hermit (adjectival form: eremitic or hermitic) is a person who lives, to some degree, in seclusion from society.

You may avoid stress by fishing at the Hostal de la Trucha, but your serenity will be hermitic.

In Abruzzi, especially in the Majella Mountains, the hermitic tradition began to flourish around 1000.

This novel focuses on two willfully hermitic sisters torn between a desire for connection with the larger world and a greedy complacency about their carefully sheltered existence.

The saga of the hermitic author, the confessional writer, the love letters and the auction block came full circle yesterday and ended, at least in theory, happily for everyone.

He was reportedly sold to a hermitic goatherder at seven and after the goatherder's death, he lived alone with the wolves in the Sierra Morena.

George and Jan O'Nale were hermitic in their habits, living in a fairly unpopulated area in the Virginian countryside.

They are the spiritual descendants of hermitic monks who a thousand years ago retired to huts along Ireland's shores, eating berries and singing their delight in nature and God.

Hao Pengju left his family home and was raised and educated by a hermitic Buddhist monk in Hua Shan until he was sixteen years old.

Roland Klare's was a lonely, almost hermitic existence - with odd tempers and periods of lethargy - and sometimes, when the mood was on him, he was a collector.

He became an alcoholic to numb his depression, which resulted in the break-up of his second marriage to Susan, and he retreated to a hermitic existence on family land near Blue Eye.

The ghastly truth that he was no longer alone beneath the Mission roof gnawed at his hermitical soul like a rat at a leper's foot.

He had hoped to meet Simon by now, in the pub or somewhere, but the lad seemed to lead a hermitical existence apart from going out with the girl, whatever her name was.

According to his Vita, written by Braulius, bishop of Caesaraugusta (modern Zaragoza) roughly a hundred years after Aemilian's death, the saint was a shepherd until a sudden conversion, perhaps around the age of twenty, decided him upon the hermitical life.