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In modern colloquial usage, the term "hermit" denotes anyone living a life apart from the rest of [[society]], or who simply does not [[participate]] in [[social]] [[events]] as much as is common, regardless of their [[motivation]] in doing so, including the [[misanthrope]].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermit]
In modern colloquial usage, the term "hermit" denotes anyone living a life apart from the rest of [[society]], or who simply does not [[participate]] in [[social]] [[events]] as much as is common, regardless of their [[motivation]] in doing so, including the [[misanthrope]].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermit]
==Hermitage==
''Hermitages'' have been located in [[caves]] and [[huts]], often in the [[desert]] or [[woods]], sometimes abutting monastery buildings of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenobitic cenobitic community] when there was an exchange of labour and provisions. In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages medieval times]], they may have been [[endowed]] by the lord or lady of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor manor] in return for [[prayers]] for their [[family]], or in [[city]] dwellings, e.g., inside the city gate as remuneration for [[services]] rendered as a gatekeeper. In [[modern]] times they are to be found even in large cities and high-rise blocks of flats, depending on the hermit's means.
==See also==
==See also==
*'''''[[Monk]]'''''
*'''''[[Monk]]'''''
