One retired from society for religious reasons.

synoniem: anchorite.

Roget 955: asceticism, puritanism, sabbatarianism^†; cynicism^†, austerity; total abstinence; nephalism^†.    mortification, maceration, sackcloth and ashes, flagellation; penance etc. 952; fasting etc. 956; martyrdom.    ascetic; anchoret^†, anchorite; martyr; Heautontimorumenos^†; hermit etc. (recluse) 893; puritan, sabbatarian^†, cynic, sanyasi^†, yogi.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: heremiet, anachoreet, kluizenaar
Pools: anachoreta

One who lives in solitude.

synoniemen: recluse, solitary, solitudinarian, troglodyte.

Roget 893: seclusion, privacy; retirement; reclusion, recess; snugness etc. adj.; delitescence^†; rustication, rus in urbe [Lat.]; solitude; solitariness etc. (singleness) 87; isolation; loneliness etc. adj.; estrangement from the world, voluntary exile; aloofness.    cell, hermitage; convent etc. 1000; sanctum sanctorum [Lat.].    depopulation, desertion, desolation; wilderness etc. (unproductive) 169; howling wilderness; rotten borough, Old Sarum.    exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription; cut, cut direct; dead cut.    inhospitality^†, inhospitableness etc. adj.; dissociability^†; domesticity, Darby and Joan.    recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite; anchoret^†, anchorite; Simon Stylites^†; troglodyte, Timon of Athens^†, Santon^†, solitaire, ruralist^†, disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, Diogenes; outcast, Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic^†; wastrel, foundling, wilding^†.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: kluizenaar
Pools: pustelnik