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Often, both in religious and secular literature, the term " hermit " is also used loosely for any Christian living a secluded prayer-focused life, and sometimes interchangeably with anchorite / anchoress, recluse and " solitary ".

Other religions – for example Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam ( Sufism ) and Taoism – also have hermits in the sense of individuals living an ascetic form of life.