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anchorite
[ ang-kuh-rahyt ]
noun
- a person who has retired to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion; hermit.
anchorite
/ ˈæŋkəˌraɪt /
noun
- a person who lives in seclusion, esp a religious recluse; hermit
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Derived Forms
- ˈanchoress, noun:feminine
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Other Words From
- an·cho·rit·ic [ang-k, uh, -, rit, -ik], adjective
- ancho·riti·cal·ly adverb
- an·cho·rit·ism [ang, -k, uh, -rahy-tiz-, uh, m], noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of anchorite1
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
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Word History and Origins
Origin of anchorite1
C15: from Medieval Latin anchorīta, from Late Latin anachōrēta, from Greek anakhōrētēs, from anakhōrein to retire, withdraw, from khōra a space
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Example Sentences
His philosophy had made him neither an ascetic nor an anchorite.
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A description of this anchorite of the rocks will be given in a later chapter.
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There rushed over him a horror that he could have succumbed so easily to the temptation that befalls every anchorite.
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You live the life of an anchorite here, never coming to the city, and I remain in retirement, scarcely ever going from the city.
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The solitary anchorite was soon supplanted by the cœnobitic establishment, the monastery.
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