hermitagen.
/ˈhəːmɪtɪdʒ/ 1.
a. The habitation of a hermit.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > hermitage
cellOE
hermitagec1290
eremitagec1400
narrow cell1636
hermitary1754
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 138/1131 To þe Ermitage of Semplingham.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 13989 Til heremytages and til abbeyes, Þer men holy bodies leyes.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8161 Right vnto þat hermitage [Fairf. ermitage, Trin. Cambr. ermytage, Gött.hermytage], þe king com to and his barnage.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xi. 46 Þare er also many kirkes and chapelles and hermytages.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. xix. 106 They doe not dwell in Hermitages solitarily.
1598 Chaucers Dreame in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 357/1 Ech seuen yeres not of vsage Uisit the heauenly armitage.
1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 44 May at last my weary age Find out the peacefull hermitage, The Hairy Gown and Mossy Cell.
1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. xxxiii. 220 It being only an Heremitage.
1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour IV. 312 Near the city [sc. Nants] is a famous hermitage, situated on a rock.
1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 124 The other contains a habitation (formerly, I believe, a hermitage).
b. transferred. A solitary or secluded dwelling-place.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > other dwelling places > [noun] > secluded or retreat
nestling place1589
hermitage1648
burrow1650
eyrie1794
nookery1824
love nest1853
nest1865
embowering1882
1648 R. Boyle Seraphic Love (1700) 159 My urgent Occasions..will recall me to morrow Morning to my own Western Hermitage.
1649 R. Lovelace Poems (1864) 119 Mindes innocent and quiet take That [prison] for an hermitage.
a1785 J. W. Fletcher Posthumous Pieces (1791) 280 I am not without hope of seeing you in London, before you see your future hermitage.
1827 R. Pollok Course of Time I. v. 209 Vesper looked forth, From out her western hermitage, and smiled.
c. The condition of a hermit. rare.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun] > person > condition of
eremitage1582
hermitage1582
eremiteshipa1603
reclusiveness1644
hermitship1825
hermitry1882
hermitism1896
hermithood1915
1582 in Bible (Rheims) Luke xxi. 1 (margin) Solitarinesse or heremitage..is a goodly thing.
1893 P. White Hist. Clare 10 [There he] lived his lonely life of hermitage.
2. Name of a French wine produced from vineyards on a hill near Valence: so called from a ruin on the summit supposed to have been a hermit's cell.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > French wines > [noun] > Rhône
hermitage1680
eremitage1796
Côte-rôtie1802
roussette1873
Tavel1875
Châteauneuf-du-Pape1876
Rhone1895
Seyssel1926
1680 T. Shadwell Woman-captain i. 5 Vin de Bon, Vin Celestine, and Hermitage, and all the Wines upon the fruitful Rhone.
1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 131. ⁋7 Two more [drops] of the same Kind heightened it into a perfect Languedoc: From thence it passed into a florid Hermitage.
1756 T. Nugent Grand Tour IV. 36 Hermitage, for those who can bear a strong wine, at three livres a bottle.
1815 M. Birkbeck Notes Journey through France 43 We approach Tournon, from whence comes the famous Hermitage wine.
1822 Magic Lantern 9 I thought his white hermitage better than his claret.
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