Meaning of eremetic | Babel Free

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Adjective. [B2]

Examples

“It was in the cenobitic rather than the eremetic form that monachism was first introduced into the west, at Rome and in northern Italy by Athanasius, in Africa by St. Augustine, and afterwards in Gaul by St. Martin of Tours.”

“After the fifth century the most noticeable feature of all Oriental monasticism is that the eremetic and cenobitic forms exist side by side.”

“Its practical outcome was the eremetic and monastic mode of life.”

“Recapitulating the pattern of the prologue, he initially displays eremetic distance as he seems resigned to the unhealthy state of the Restoration Court.”

“Although one still may detect respect for the utterances of holy men, the saying as a dominant feature of the monk's life suffered an eclipse in the monasteries, where the communal rather than eremetic life was stressed.”

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