Hermitess

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A female hermit.

    "Yea, she doth smile, and she doth weep, / Like a youthful hermitess, / Beauteous in a wilderness, / Who, praying always, prays in sleep."

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"Yea, she doth smile, and she doth weep, / Like a youthful hermitess, / Beauteous in a wilderness, / Who, praying always, prays in sleep."

Etymology

From hermit + -ess.

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