Definition of "hermitages" [hermitages]

• Plural form of hermitage. (noun)

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• "From the very inception of the roder the so-called hermitages for which St. Francis made special provision servd for this object."
• "These places are splendidly _meditative_, but they do not give me the idea of hermitages in the wilderness like that ruined Abbey of Sassovivo above Foligno."
• "M. Guigue has catalogued the eleven "hermitages" (eight of them for men and three for women) which were distinctive of the ascetical life of Christian Lyons in the Middle Ages; these were cells in which persons shut themselves up for life after four years of trial."