hermits

plural of hermit
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 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
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“Hermits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hermits. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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