eremitish, a.
(ˈɛrɪmaɪtɪʃ)
[f. eremite + -ish.]
Resembling an eremite; befitting an eremite.
| 1608–11 Bp. Hall Medit. & Vows i. 90 Christian good⁓fellowship better than an eremitish and melancholike solitarinesse. 1833 T. Medwin in Shelley Papers 61 The Guiccioli..seemed by no means to admire Milord's eremitish diet. 1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur 213 A priest..never being more perfectly eremitish. |