- Anchorite - Eremite - Recluse - Religious recluse - Solitary dweller - Solitary person - A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a
recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious
motives.
- A male religious - Anchorite - Member of a religious community of men - Monastery dweller - Religious man - Religious recluse - A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the
world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of
men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity,
obedience, and poverty.
- Abstinent - Austere - Austere Cate’s distressed, I see - One who lives a life of austerity - Rigidly abstemious - spare man - Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere;
severe.