[ UK /ˈænkəɹˌa‍ɪt/ ]
NOUN
  1. one retired from society for religious reasons
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  • We do not need roads filled with NBC - 2 vehicles containing anchorites powdering their noses in rear view mirrors.
  • That didn't mean I began to live like an anchorite; far from it: I suppose I will always be true to my nature as a bon vivant. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • As an anchorite, she had chosen a life of silence and yet she teaches her daughters to speak out with honesty and courage.
  • The land of the pharaohs was transformed; the festival hall of Thutmosis III in the temple of Karnak was turned into a church, while Christian anchorites lived in some of the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings.
  • As mother Julian said, when, the poor persecuted woman, had to brick herself into a cell as an anchorite against attack by the lying establishment and listen to the screams of the innocent faithful, burning in pits all around her: Polly Loves Milly
  • After all, she wasn't an anchorite - or was it an eremite - with her thoughts as her raison d'être. A DEAD LIBERTY
  • Rouen; the anchorite St. Féfre or Fiacre, and the missionary St. Chillen, both Irishmen, contemporaries of St. Faro (first half of the seventh century); St. Aile (Agilus), monk of Luxeuil who became in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
  • After all, she wasn't an anchorite - or was it an eremite - with her thoughts as her raison d'être. A DEAD LIBERTY
  • -- A zahid, or hermit, stands in need of neither diram nor dinar; when an anchorite takes either, look out for another. The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2
  • Granada, from which its austere anchorites had been driven by the barbarous decree of exclaustration (1835), was acquired and restored by the Jesuits, who have established in it their novitiate for New The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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