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Jan 15, 2010
This week's themeWords relating to religion This week's words sacerdotal precatory vatic canonical eremite This week's comments AWADmail 394 Next week's theme Miscellaneous words 
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with Anu Gargeremite
PRONUNCIATION:
(AIR-uh-myt)
MEANING:
noun:
A recluse, especially for religious reasons.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin eremita, from Greek eremia (desert), from eremos (solitary).
USAGE:
"Poor Joyce Maynard. Not since Martina Hingis submarined a serve to
Steffi Graf in the French Open has a woman been so universally excoriated
for underhanded conduct. And all Maynard did was sell a bunch of mash
notes she had saved from a boyfriend of 27 years ago to raise college
tuition for her children. Except that the boyfriend happened to be J.D.
Salinger -- the eremite of Cornish, N.H."Mark Leyner; How to Avoid Salinger Syndrome; Time (New York); Jul 5, 1999. "Thou Spirit, who led'st this glorious Eremite Into the desert, his victorious field Against the spiritual foe, and brought'st him thence." John Milton; Paradise Regained; 1671. See more usage examples of eremite in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. -Marshall McLuhan, educator and philosopher (1911-1980)
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