anchorite
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- anchoress noun
- anchoritic adjective
- anchoritically adverb
- anchoritism noun
Etymology
Origin of anchorite
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English anc(h)orite, anachorite, ancorite, conflation of Middle English ancre (from Old English ancra, ancer ) and Old French anacorite or Late Latin anachōrīta, anachōrēta, from Late Greek anachōrētḗs, agent noun derivative of anachōreîn “to withdraw” + -tēs agent suffix
Example Sentences
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Her subsequent eviction from the Beguines leads to her accepting the Bishop’s offer of sanctuary—as an anchorite, destined to live out her days in a tiny stone outcropping.
From Los Angeles Times
Her subsequent eviction from the Beguines leads to her accepting the Bishop’s offer of sanctuary — as an anchorite, destined to live out her days in a tiny stone outcropping.
From Los Angeles Times
Many writers are deskbound anchorites; Kurkov is a compulsively social animal with a deep bench of illustrious friends.
From New York Times
But Hardulph would not have been a hermit in the colloquial sense; he would have been an anchorite, meaning that he would have been anchored to the church and may have had disciples, Simons explained.
From Washington Post
We see Moore and her mother living together in Greenwich Village “like anchorites.”
From New York Times
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