Usage examples (9)

• He had hoped to meet Simon by now, in the pub or somewhere, but the lad seemed to lead a hermitical existence apart from going out with the girl, whatever her name was.
• A hundred years of expansion in the surrounding land had acted inversely with the little hamlet, and had pinched it into a hermitical isolation.
• He took with him there a few monks and built a resplendent monastery; he remained in that place a year and six months more leading a hermitical life.
• But in the second spring of my hermitical life a report was circulated that the Countess, with her husband, was coming to spend the summer on her estate.