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n. - The abode of a loner.

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  • And her hermitage is seen to this day in the suburbs of
  • Fifteen men call the hermitage home, down from 25 a decade ago.
  • Sri Yukteswar called his hermitage organization SAT-SANGA, “fellowship with truth.”
  • In times past, the hermitage was a place, not only of religious retirement, but of burial.
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  • After 20 years, the recluse emerged from his "hermitage" (a monastery where a hermit lives) to claim a sizeable "heritage" (what you inherit or possess by reason of birth).
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