eremite

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Most scrupulous of painters, he lived like an eremite, relentlessly purged his optic sense of all illusion, all imaginative invention.

From Time Magazine Archive

But if we fail to take Barlaam, I know of an eremite, Nachor by name, in every way like unto him: it is impossible to distinguish the one from the other.

From Barlaam and Ioasaph by John of Damascus, Saint

The order of scholars has ceased to be mendicant, vagabond, and eremite.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various

Had he been an eremite of the old sort, the last place in which robbers would have expected to find plunder would be his cell.

From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

No eremite of the Thebaid, or the Nitroon, is more completely immured than I find you; and the seclusion from society is quite as deleterious as the want of out-door air and sunshine.

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans