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

He willingly bowed to "the gentle yoke of Christ"—thus ran the monkish ritual—which the life of an eremite among eremites was to impose on him.

From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore)

Ingram, we now admit that Poe was neither a drunkard, a debauchee, nor a cynical eremite.

From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Bennett, Arnold

Around the cell of some eremite like Anthony, who fixed his retreat on Mount Colzim, a number of humble imitators gathered, emulous of his austerities and of his piety.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William

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