hermitess
nounEtymology From hermit + -ess.
1
A female hermit.
- Yea, she doth smile, and she doth weep, / Like a youthful hermitess, / Beauteous in a wilderness, / Who, praying always, prays in sleep.1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel:
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