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eremitish

eremitish adjective: characteristic of a hermit; solitary.

Adjective

eremitish (comparative more eremitish, superlative most eremitish)

  1. (obsolete) Characteristic of a hermit; solitary
    • So much as doing good is better than not doing evil, will I account Christian good fellowship better than an eremitish and melancholy solitariness.1646, Jos[eph] Hall, The Balme of Gilead: Or, Comforts for the Distressed, both Morall and Divine. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, for Nat[haniel] Butter, →OCLC

Forms of eremitish

comparativemore eremitish
superlativemost eremitish

Origin of eremitish

From eremite + -ish.

Questions about eremitish

What does eremitish mean?
Eremitish means characteristic of a hermit; solitary.
What part of speech is eremitish?
Eremitish is an adjective.

Words near eremitish in the dictionary

  1. eremital
  2. eremite
  3. eremites
  4. eremitic
  5. eremitical
  6. eremitish
  7. eremitism
  8. Eremitu
  9. eremo-
  10. eremobatid
  11. eremobatids

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