Definitions for anchorets

anchorets an·cho·ret

Spelling: [ang-ker-it, -kuh-ret]
IPA: /ˈæŋ kər ɪt, -kəˌrɛt/

Anchorets is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 1041 anagrams from letters in anchorets (acehnorst).

Definitions for anchorets

noun

  1. anchorite.

Origin of anchorets

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

Examples for anchorets

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.

Ammona lived with three thousand brethren in such silence as though he was an anchoret.

For it stood on the transcantine side, an anchoret in itself, severed by the river from the rest of the University.

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

His plump cheeks, no less than his well-filled waistcoat, showed that the Rev. Mr. Rimmon was no anchoret.

Arsenius was a noble Roman who, at the end of the fourth century, retired to Egypt to live the life of an anchoret in the desert.

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

Word Value for anchorets
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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