anchorite - a person who has retired to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion; hermit.
hermitage - the habitation of a hermit
hermit - a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion
reclusive - a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation
stylite - one of a class of solitary ascetics who lived on the top of high pillars or columns
mendicant - begging; practicing begging; living on alms; pertaining to or characteristic of a beggar
perversity - the state or quality of being perverse
blights - the state or result of being blighted or deteriorated
impiety - lack of piety; lack of reverence for god or sacred things; irreverence
chastity - the state or quality of being chaste
ascetic - a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons; a person who leads an austerely simple life, esp. one who abstains from the normal pleasures of life or denies himself or herself material satisfaction; a monk; hermit
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