Anchoress is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 601 anagrams from letters in anchoress (acehnorss).
1350-1400; late Middle English anchoryse, Middle English ankres, equivalent to ancre anchorite + -es -ess
An anchoress must not become a schoolmistress, nor turn her anchoress-house into a school for children.
For a case of doubt in an anchoress, which, however ended well, see ib.
One plea to lead a stricter life was, however, less open to suspicion; that was the request to be enclosed as an anchoress.
The Lady Julian, who was the anchoress in 1393, is said to have had two servants to attend her in her old age.
In 1453, an anchoress named Matilda supplied the place of Isabella, who we may suppose had long since gone to her reward.
She may be a nun; but if ever she prove an anchoress, I'll dig her grave with my nails.
I'll not go back to my anchoress lodge in the north till I see what works out of them!
An anchoress that is a buyer and a seller selleth her soul to the chapman of hell.
An anchoress must not become a school-mistress, nor turn her house into a school for children.
Her purity led her own mother to speak other as an "anchoress."
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