How To Use Anchoritic In A Sentence
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Age and hygienic necessities bind me to a somewhat anchoritic life in pure air, with abundant leisure to meditate upon the wisdom of Candide's sage aphorism, "Cultivons notre jardin" ” especially if the term garden may be taken broadly and applied to the stony and weed-grown ground within my skull, as well as to a few perches of more promising chalk down outside it.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
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The Venerable Bede speaks of as many as three personages, Saxons by their names, who in the Isle of Ireland led the "Pilgrim" or anchoritic life, to obtain a country in heaven; and tells of a
The Hermits
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Age and hygienic necessities bind me to a somewhat anchoritic life in pure air, with abundant leisure to meditate upon the wisdom of Candide's sage aphorism, "Cultivons notre jardin" -- especially if the term garden may be taken broadly and applied to the stony and weed-grown ground within my skull, as well as to a few perches of more promising chalk down outside it.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
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The Venerable Bede speaks of as many as three personages, Saxons by their names, who in the Isle of Ireland led the “Pilgrim” or anchoritic life, to obtain a country in heaven; and tells of a Drycthelm of the monastery at Melrose, who went into a secret dwelling therein to give himself more utterly to prayer, and who used to stand for hours in the cold waters of the Tweed, as St. Godric did centuries afterwards in those of the Wear.
The Hermits
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Or refuge wherein a handful of carnivore outcasts had lived, nearly anchoritic.
Cold Mountain
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After two years or more at Antioch, he finally withdrew to the desert of Chalcis to undertake the penitential life of an anchoritic monk.
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Age and hygienic necessities bind me to a somewhat anchoritic life in pure air, with abundant leisure to meditate upon the wisdom of Candide's sage aphorism, "Cultivons notre jardin" -- especially if the term garden may be taken broadly and applied to the stony and weed-grown ground within my skull, as well as to a few perches of more promising chalk down outside it.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
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Hilarion was greatly honored as the founder of anchoritic life in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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Across the Channel in England, at roughly the same time, Aelred, the Cistercian abbot of Rievaulx, composed a Rule for recluses intended for his sister and the small group of companions who had joined her in the anchoritic life.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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Mursell here traces the complexity of late medieval devotion, giving attention to burgeoning lay spirituality, the popularity of anchoritic life, and preoccupation with death and suffering.
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Today there seems to be a movement of the Holy Spirit calling forth the anchoritic vocation once again.
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In other words, the anchoritic life of the 3rd century I felt probably didn't exist.
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And candor compels the admission forthwith that the presence of this anchoritic merit in the wilderness is hardly due to me.
The Jewel Merchants A Comedy in One Act
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By the twelfth century in England, however, aspirants to anchoritic life were pious lay people.
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Although the truth of his extravagant feelings is proved by his death, and though when he digs up a treasure he spurns the wealth which seems to tempt him, we yet see distinctly enough that the vanity of wishing to be singular, in both the parts that he plays, had some share in his liberal self-forgetfulness, as well as in his anchoritical seclusion.
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
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Founder of anchoritic life in Palestine; born at Tabatha, south of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability