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anchoret

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

noun



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Other Words From

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

Origin of anchoret1

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

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

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

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

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

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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