Lexicographical Neighbors of Hermitry
Literary usage of Hermitry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"The profession of hermitry, if one may call it so, is a lost art; it has been
overwhelmed by teeming populations and newer fashions. ..."
2. Queed: A Novel by Henry Sydnor Harrison (1911)
"... from his academic hermitry into contact with the visible life around him.
And everywhere that he had touched life, it had turned about and smitten him. ..."
3. History of the Christian Church from Its Origin to the Present Time by William Maxwell Blackburn (1879)
"hermitry, which first appeared in Egypt and Syria. The hermit (eremite, anchoret,
monk) was the man of the desert, living alone in his cell or cave, ..."
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