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stylite

noun as in hermit

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A Stylite might have contented himself there; Gilliatt, more luxurious in his requirements, wanted something more commodious.

This old monk was St. Luke the Stylite, appearing in vision.

He stopped, some paces from the column, and began to examine the stylite, wiping his face meanwhile with the skirt of his toga.

Simeon the Stylite comes down from his pillar-top, and chaffers in the market-place with common folks.

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On this page you'll find 12 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stylite, such as: recluse, anchorite, ascetic, eremite, misanthrope, and skeptic.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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