hermitical

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He took with him there a few monks and built a resplendent monastery; he remained in that place a year and six months more leading a hermitical life. 

From Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore by Anonymous

A hundred years of expansion in the surrounding land had acted inversely with the little hamlet, and had pinched it into a hermitical isolation.

From Thoroughbreds by Fraser, William Alexander

A somewhat shy and hermitical being we take him to be, and more a student of his own heart than of men.

From The Function of the Poet and Other Essays by Lowell, James Russell

She, too, had no doubt been terrified into that hermitical retirement—among the señoritas now universal.

From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Reid, Mayne

But in the second spring of my hermitical life a report was circulated that the Countess, with her husband, was coming to spend the summer on her estate.

From Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian by Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich