anchoret
[ang-ker-it, -kuh-ret]
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Origin of anchoret
1735–45; variant of anchorite, with final vowel directly reflecting Late Latin or Late Greek spelling
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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.
The Antiquary, CompleteSir Walter Scott
His plump cheeks, no less than his well-filled waistcoat, showed that the Rev. Mr. Rimmon was no anchoret.
Gordon KeithThomas Nelson Page
For it stood on the transcantine side, an anchoret in itself, severed by the river from the rest of the University.
Cambridge and its StoryCharles William Stubbs
No anchoret, indeed, could claim for himself much more apathy towards all such allurements than he did at that period.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. I. (of VI.)Thomas Moore