anchorite
a person who has retired to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion; hermit.
Origin of anchorite
1- Also anchoret.
Other words from anchorite
- an·cho·rit·ic [ang-kuh-rit-ik], /ˌæŋ kəˈrɪt ɪk/, adjective
- an·cho·rit·i·cal·ly, adverb
- an·cho·rit·ism [ang-kuh-rahy-tiz-uhm], /ˈæŋ kə raɪˌtɪz əm/, noun
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How to use anchorite in a sentence
His philosophy had made him neither an ascetic nor an anchorite.
Mary Wollstonecraft | Elizabeth Robins PennellA description of this anchorite of the rocks will be given in a later chapter.
Birds of the Rockies | Leander Sylvester KeyserThere rushed over him a horror that he could have succumbed so easily to the temptation that befalls every anchorite.
Robert Annys: Poor Priest | Annie Nathan MeyerYou live the life of an anchorite here, never coming to the city, and I remain in retirement, scarcely ever going from the city.
The Bastonnais | John LesperanceThe solitary anchorite was soon supplanted by the cœnobitic establishment, the monastery.
History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) | John William Draper
British Dictionary definitions for anchorite
/ (ˈæŋkəˌraɪt) /
a person who lives in seclusion, esp a religious recluse; hermit
Origin of anchorite
1Derived forms of anchorite
- anchoress, fem n
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