Stylites [noun]
Definition of Stylites:
person who chose to live alone
Synonyms of Stylites:
● Recluse
● Solitary
● Misanthrope
● Skeptic
● Ascetic
● Solitaire
● Eremite
● Anchorite
● Outside of human society anchoret
● Pillarist
● Solitarian
Opposite/Antonyms of Stylites:
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Sentence/Example of Stylites:
This old monk was St. Luke the Stylite, appearing in vision.
Simeon the Stylite comes down from his pillar-top, and chaffers in the market-place with common folks.
He stopped, some paces from the column, and began to examine the stylite, wiping his face meanwhile with the skirt of his toga.
A Stylite might have contented himself there; Gilliatt, more luxurious in his requirements, wanted something more commodious.