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Troglodyte

noun

One who lives in solitude. Synonyms: hermit, recluse, solitary, solitudinarian.

Someone who lives in a cave. Synonyms: cave dweller, cave man, caveman.

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... intensity. His pupils, contracted each to a dot, became the central puncta of two rings of fiery light; his little sharp teeth seemed to gnash. Once before I had seen him look thus greedily, when, grasping a Troglodyte tablet covered with half-effaced hieroglyphics—his fingers livid with the fixity of his grip—he bent on it that strenuous inquisition, that ardent questioning gaze, till, by a species of mesmeric dominancy, he seemed to wrench from it the arcanum it hid from other eyes; then he lay back, ...

— Prince Zaleski • M.P. Shiel

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Words linked to "Troglodyte" : John the Baptist, lone wolf, lone hand, St. John the Baptist, primitive person, loner, primitive