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Eremite vs Heremite - What's the difference?

eremite | heremite |

Heremite is a alternative form of eremite.



As nouns the difference between eremite and heremite

is that eremite is a hermit; a religious recluse, someone who lives alone while heremite is a hermit; an eremite.

eremite

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A hermit; a religious recluse, someone who lives alone.

    • Related terms

    * eremetic * eremitical * hermit ----

    heremite

    English

    Alternative forms

    * eremite, hermit, heremit

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A hermit; an eremite.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XI, iv:
  • *:Next morn the bishops twain, the heremite , / And all the clerks and priests of less estate, // Did in the middest of the camp unite / Within a place for prayer consecrate.