anchoret

[ ang-ker-it, -kuh-ret ]

noun

1. anchorite.

Other Words From

• an·cho·ret·ic [ang-k, uh, -, ret, -ik], adjective
• ancho·retism noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of anchoret¹

1735–45; variant of anchorite, with final vowel directly reflecting Late Latin or Late Greek spelling

Example Sentences

No anchoret, indeed, could claim for himself much more apathy towards all such allurements than he did at that period.

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The ground floor served as drawing-room; above it was the anchoret's bedroom; and the top story was used as a study.

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He was at this time evidently leading the life of an anchoret.

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But at Monkbarns, no anchoret could have made a more simple and scanty meal.

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For it stood on the transcantine side, an anchoret in itself, severed by the river from the rest of the University.

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