Heremite

Alternative forms

• eremite, hermit, heremit

Full definition of heremite

Noun

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.