hermit
ermitaño
definition
noun
Secular idleness would have little meaning in solitude, and the religious contemplation of the hermit or monk is not in question here.
a person living in solitude as a religious discipline.
A local guide took us out the first morning for a half-day of birding, including a visit to a lek of performing green hermit hummingbirds, and then got us on our way to the Canopy Tower, a short distance north of the city.
a hummingbird found in the shady lower layers of tropical forests, foraging along a regular route.
translation of 'hermit'
noun
eremita,
ermitaño
example
But Mychael didn't understand why one had to channel magic in the first place, or why Will and Caleb had been so shocked when that ancient 'hermit' had done magic without channeling.
Happy Ahmed is going to steal a lot of Ritalin and run away to become some filthy 'hermit' , discarding the ideals that society heaps upon him in an act of truth to self and an experiment in exclusive morality.
For several years, Benedict lived as a 'hermit' in a cave at Subiaco, where the Roman Emperor Nero had had a villa centuries earlier.
Desiring to find the source of this even greater power, Christopher went off in search of Christ, and was encouraged by a pious 'hermit' to become a living ferryman over a great river.
Even the 'hermit' was expected to supply the needs of the sick and the destitute through the money he earned from his own handicraft.
A local guide took us out the first morning for a half-day of birding, including a visit to a lek of performing green 'hermit' hummingbirds, and then got us on our way to the Canopy Tower, a short distance north of the city.
You have got to be a little bit of 'hermit' this season.
Secular idleness would have little meaning in solitude, and the religious contemplation of the 'hermit' or monk is not in question here.
Since, according to the legend, she retired as a 'hermit' , her example could be employed to sing the praises of the contemplative life.
His ascetic aspirations did not make him wish to be a 'hermit' .
Being stuck in a studio in front of the computer all day probably has something do with this - you become an introspective, insular 'hermit' .
One night his troops encounter an old Asiatic 'hermit' named Dersu Uzala, who lives in the wilderness, surviving by hunting and selling furs.
Sam Beam may boast a mountain man's beard and home-taping origins, but his steady output as Iron & Wine over the last two years has proved he's no 'hermit' .
As a form of asceticism, celibacy's heroic demands are more at home with a 'hermit' in the desert or a monk in a monastery than with a priest ministering in today's highly charged sexual atmosphere.
They would sneak along the creek to where it just passed the back of the farmhouse belonging to Jonathan Lawson, an uppity old 'hermit' who insisted he owned the creek.
Christian monasticism evolved from the 'hermit' communities founded in the 3rd century by men fleeing from Roman persecution to the Egyptian and Syrian deserts, where they sought union with God.
The hard-working Swanevelt spent so little time carousing with his compatriots in their haunts around the Piazza di Spagna, Rome, that he was given the Bentvueghel nickname of Heremiet, or 'hermit' .
It is bedrock biblical wisdom that the human person was not created for isolation; the way of the 'hermit' has always been the cautious exception rather than the rule in the Christian tradition.
The Michelin Man was created in 1898 by a crazed German 'hermit' named Berthold Heinz-Dieter who lived in a junkyard.
The Grinch is a yellowish green (or maybe a greenish yellow) 'hermit' who lives on the top of Mount Crumpet with his erstwhile companion Max, a dog whose loyalty knows no bounds.
Towards the end of his life, he became a 'hermit' and lived among holy men.
The heroine, Portia, about to arrive home, is reported to be kneeling at holy crosses in the company of a 'hermit' .
His dying trek home leads to a last few weeks of 'hermitic' vigil, representing his political impotence as a lone poet with writers' block.
These 'hermits' , acting as their own spiritual guides, were easily led to excesses and misdirection.
Many of these 'hermits' are also visionaries, an idea which comes out of tales of mystic saints like Teresa of Avila and Francis of Assisi, who were close to real-life Christian shamans.
Now I'm going to turn into a 'hermitic' poet, I thought to myself, depressed, and spend all the rest of my days thinking up similes and metaphors and whatever else it is they teach us in English class.
Anti Vampire Club membership ranges from pirates to 'hermitic' recluses to your common garden-variety psychopath.
Carmelites world wide, men and women, see themselves in the tradition of the early medieval 'hermits' who withdrew to the caves of Mt Carmel in Palestine in imitation of the Prophet Elijah's life of contemplation.
Valaam, on a beautiful island in Lake Ladoga near the Finnish border, is once again home to both monks and 'hermits' .
I'm sure there are 'hermits' living in the hills of Haiti who have served the Lwa all their life and are mighty in Legba's magick, who have never set foot in a peristyle.
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