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eremitage

eremitage is the obsolete form of hermitage.

Meaning of hermitage

Noun

hermitage (plural hermitages)

  1. A house or dwelling where a hermit lives.
    • But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee [God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him?1624, John Donne, “13. Prayer”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, page 329
  2. A place of seclusion.
    • Temptation is an obsequious servant that has no objection to the country, and we know that it takes up its lodging in hermitages as well as in cities; and that in the most remote and inaccessible desert it keeps company with the fugitive solitary.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 28, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...
  3. A period of seclusion.

See all 19 meanings of hermitage

Forms of eremitage

pluraleremitages

Questions about eremitage

What is eremitage the obsolete form of?
Eremitage is the obsolete form of hermitage.

Words near eremitage in the dictionary

  1. eremetic
  2. eremeyevite
  3. eremiaphilid
  4. eremiaphilids
  5. eremic
  6. eremitage
  7. eremitages
  8. eremital
  9. eremite
  10. eremites
  11. eremitic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eremitage (page history and authors); hermitage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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