Meaning of Hermitage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A house or dwelling where a hermit lives.
2. A place in the United Kingdom:
3. A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU5073).
4. A wine produced near Valence, Drôme.
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5. A place of seclusion.
6. A small village and civil parish (served by High Stoy (Group) Parish Council) in Dorset, England, previously in West Dorset district (OS grid ref ST6407).
7. A period of seclusion.
8. A village in Southbourne parish, Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU7505).
9. A small village in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY5095).
10. A place in the United States:
11. A small city in Bradley County, Arkansas.
12. A former settlement in Mendocino County, California.
13. A former community in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana.
14. A small city, the county seat of Hickory County, Missouri.
15. A city in Mercer County, Pennsylvania.
16. A neighbourhood of Nashville, Tennessee.
17. A settlement in Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.
18. A locality in Saint John, United States Virgin Islands.
19. A town on Carriacou, Grenada.
20. A neighbourhood in north-east Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
21. A locality in Central Highlands Council, central Tasmania, Australia.

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Examples

“But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee [God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him?”

“I saw the huge rocking-stone, that had been violently depressed by him as he sprang, fly back when relieved of his weight till, for the first time during all these centuries, it got beyond its balance, fell with a most awful crash right into the rocky chamber which had once served the philosopher Noot for a hermitage, and, I have no doubt, for ever sealed the passage that leads to the Place of Life with some hundreds of tons of rock.”

“Temptation is an obsequious servant that has no objection to the country, and we know that it takes up its lodging in hermitages as well as in cities; and that in the most remote and inaccessible desert it keeps company with the fugitive solitary.”

“Here a real supper was elegantly served […] with choice wines, particularly white hermitage, which I never before had tasted.”

“You will do very well, my lady, very well indeed. I will send you in a couple of dozen of capital sherry, fit for the dons, and some hermitage, by no means to be sneezed at;...”

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