hermit (n.)
- abbot
- abstainer
- alien
- anchorite
- ascetic
- beadsman
- brother
- case
- celibate
- cenobite
- character
- crackpot
- crank
- dervish
- eccentric
- eremite
- fakir
- fanatic
- flagellant
- friar
- hobo
- homebody
- invalid
- isolationist
- kook
- loner
- marabout
- maverick
- mendicant
- monastic
- monk
- natural
- nonconformist
- nut
- oddball
- oddity
- original
- outcast
- outsider
- palmer
- pariah
- pilgrim
- prior
- puritan
- recluse
- religious
- sannyasi
- screwball
- shut-in
- solitaire
- solitary
- solitudinarian
- stay-at-home
- stylite
- tramp
- type
- yogi
- zealot
Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.
When Music, heavenly maid, was young,
While yet in early Greece she sung.
Shall I, like an hermit, dwell
On a rock or in a cell?
The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man the hermit sigh'd—till woman smiled.
As the old hermit of Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, That that is, is.
Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale,
And guide my lonely way
To where yon taper cheers the vale
With hospitable ray.
