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heremites

heremites is the plural of heremite.

Meaning of heremite

Noun

heremite (plural heremites)

  1. (obsolete) A hermit; an eremite.
    • Next morn the bishops twain, the heremite, / And all the clerks and priests of less estate, // Did in the middest of the camp unite / Within a place for prayer consecrate.1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, iv

Questions about heremites

What is heremites the plural of?
Heremites is the plural of heremite.

Words near heremites in the dictionary

  1. Hereks
  2. herem
  3. Hereman
  4. heremit
  5. heremite
  6. heremites
  7. heremitic
  8. heremitical
  9. herems
  10. Heren
  11. Herendeen

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