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hermitage

[hur-mi-tij, er-mi-tahzh] / ˈhɜr mɪ tɪdʒ, ˌɛr mɪˈtɑʒ /
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The manuscript opens with the life of Giovanni of Florence, who built the Augustinian hermitage of Santa Lucia in Larniano with help from local farmers.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026

An L.A. artist whose work I want in every room of my home: My decor is very simple and minimal because I like my home to feel like a hermitage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2023

She came to Solas Bhride this year for a weeklong stay in its hermitage.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2022

Its artefacts and antiquities consultant Nigel Mills suggested the cross could have been connected with the medieval hermitage and chapel at Throckenholt, which is within the Sutton St Edmund parish.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2022

He had thought, of course, of going back to Aravis and Bree and Hwin at the hermitage, but he couldn't because by now he had not the least idea of the direction.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis

These ascetics attracted followers, and as a result monasteries and hermitages flourished in less hospitable areas.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Lizz Pickard of Colorado is staying at one of the hermitages at Solas Bride this week, the latest of several visits.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2023

His companions were genuine lay brothers, able to lead him through the marshes and waterways to isolated hermitages and priories, where he would be able to plan his next moves.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2020

In 1925, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Turkey’s first president, closed all the orders and hermitages as part of his secularization policies.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2019

When I was a child, I used to amuse myself in constructing hermitages with pebbles.

From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Gustave Flaubert


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