hermitess

From hermit +‎ -ess.

hermitess (plural hermitesses)

1. A female hermit.
   • 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel:

     Yea, she doth smile, and she doth weep, / Like a youthful hermitess, / Beauteous in a wilderness, / Who, praying always, prays in sleep.

• erethisms