[f. EREMITE + -ISM.] The state of a hermit; a living in seclusion from social life.
1653. A. Ross, Πανσεβεια (1655), 246. Some again not content with ordinary ways of Eremitisme, have spent their days within hollow pillars, whence they were named Stylitæ, neither admitting the speech nor sight of any man or woman.
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