heremite

== English == === Alternative forms === eremite, hermit, heremit === Noun === heremite (plural heremites) (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.