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

Only an Olive Schreiner could do full justice to your failure, you poor nun, you futile eremite, you absolute and hopeless impasse.

From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Both have a "demon," but Sartor's is exceedingly fierce, dwelling among the tombs—Wordsworth's a mild eremite, loving the rocks and the woods.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 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)

The seclusion was individual—the man was an eremite.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris