hermitism
nounEtymology From hermit + -ism.
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The habits of a hermit, living alone and in isolation.
- We have not to examine into the earliest practice of ascetic life and hermitism; the gathering together of secluded societies of celibates and virgins; the superstitious veneration of the relics of holy men […]1862, John Algernon Clarke, What the Prophets Foretold, page 156: