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EREMITICAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by ascetic solitude
Example:
his hermitic existence
Synonyms:
anchoritic; eremitic; eremitical; hermitic; hermitical
Classified under:
Similar:
unworldly (not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations)
Derivation:
eremite (a Christian recluse)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living
Example:
eremitic austerities
Synonyms:
eremitic; eremitical
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
eremite (a Christian recluse)
Derivation:
eremite (a Christian recluse)
