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hermitess

hermitess noun: a female hermit.

Noun

hermitess (plural hermitesses)

  1. A female hermit.
    • Yea, she doth smile, and she doth weep, / Like a youthful hermitess, / Beauteous in a wilderness, / Who, praying always, prays in sleep.1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel

Forms of hermitess

pluralhermitesses

Origin of hermitess

From hermit + -ess.

Questions about hermitess

What does hermitess mean?
Hermitess means a female hermit.
What part of speech is hermitess?
Hermitess is a noun.
What is the plural of hermitess?
The plural of hermitess is hermitesses.

Words near hermitess in the dictionary

  1. hermitaries
  2. hermitary
  3. Hermite interpolation
  4. Hermite polynomial
  5. Hermite polynomials
  6. hermitess
  7. hermitesses
  8. hermithood
  9. hermitian
  10. Hermitian conjugate
  11. Hermitian conjugates

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