a. [f. EREMITE + -ISH.] Resembling an eremite; befitting an eremite.
1605. Bp. Hall, Medit. & Vowes, I. § 90. 105. I account christian good fellowship better then an Eremitish & melancholike solitarines.
1833. T. Medwin, in Shelley Papers, 61. The Guiccioli … seemed by no means to admire Milord’s eremitish diet.
1880. L. Wallace, Ben-Hur, 213. A priest … never being more perfectly eremitish.
