HERMITAGE

Hermitage

Although today's meaning is usually a place where a hermit lives in seclusion from the world, hermitage was more commonly used to mean a settlement where a person or a group of people lived religiously, in seclusion.

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hermitage

Noun

  1. A house or dwelling where a hermit lives.
  2. A place of seclusion.
  3. A period of seclusion.


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