as in solitaries
a person who lives away from others
St. Jerome is said to have spent two years as a hermit in the desert, searching for inner peace
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Recent Examples of hermits
Forest monks, anchorites, and hermits have made similar sacrifices in the name of God.
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Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
The cautious hermits of the KMT do not attempt to forecast the future.
—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 16 Sep. 2025
Many of us became hermits when COVID-19 ravaged our sense of normalcy, and some still haven’t quite gotten back into the swing of in-person dating.
—Essence, 5 Sep. 2025
The practice of self-flagellation, Norman Cohn informs us, was seemingly first adopted by monastic hermits in the eleventh century.
—Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
The cautious hermits of the KMT do not attempt to forecast the future.
—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 16 Sep. 2025
Many of us became hermits when COVID-19 ravaged our sense of normalcy, and some still haven’t quite gotten back into the swing of in-person dating.
—Essence, 5 Sep. 2025
The practice of self-flagellation, Norman Cohn informs us, was seemingly first adopted by monastic hermits in the eleventh century.
—Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hermits
isolates
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With that anchor, the system isolates and enhances conversation partners while suppressing everyone else, operating at latencies less than 10 milliseconds—fast enough to keep the amplified audio aligned with lip movements.—
Meghie Rodrigues,
IEEE Spectrum,
8 Dec. 2025
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The gun-owning Susan Lorincz isolates and relentlessly harasses and targets Ajike Owens’ family, calling police countless times about such infractions as kids playing on the lawn and them just being kids.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Hermits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hermits. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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