Hermitage

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.

Equivalents

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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