anchoret
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of anchoret
1735–45; variant of anchorite, with final vowel directly reflecting Late Latin or Late Greek spelling
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Oft had sweet pastime wearied her, and yet Fain would she match in toil the anchoret.
From The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa by Kalidasa
Pertaining to an anchoret or hermit; after the manner of an anchoret.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
The anchoret looks on this sublunary sphere as one of sighing, the attorney as one of suing—there being all that difference betwixt law and gospel.
From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various
Listen, ye swans, to the heavenly strain; 'Tis the anchoret tolling his soft matin bell: He has come to release us, from sorrow, from pain, From the cold and tempestuous shores where we dwell!
From A Reading Book in Irish History by P. W. Joyce
The bishops commended her to God and left the palace, and prayer was made that she should bear a male child; for we believed in the words of Saint Procopius the anchoret.
From Women of Early Christianity by Alfred Brittain
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