Definitions for anchorite

anchorite an·cho·rite

Spelling: [ang-kuh-rahyt]
IPA: /ˈæŋ kəˌraɪt/

Anchorite is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 841 anagrams from letters in anchorite (acehinort).

Definitions for anchorite

noun

  1. a person who has retired to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion; hermit.

Origin of anchorite

1400-50; late Middle English anc(h)orite, conflation of Middle English ancre (Old English ancra, ancer) and Old French anacorite or Medieval Latin anachōrīta Late Greek anachōrētḗs, equivalen

Examples for anchorite

Why that man has conversation for the prince and the peasant—the courtier and the anchorite.

Dumb were its walls as when they refused to return the murmured orisons of the anchorite.

His philosophy had   made him neither an ascetic nor an anchorite.

He dressed himself like an automaton, and breakfasted like an anchorite.

He was, to the eyes of men, studious and holy as an anchorite.

"She is enough to tempt an anchorite," declares Mr. Murray, gallantly.

He lived in Paris more lonely than an anchorite in the deserts of Thebes.

At the Tambov hermitage the anchorite Hilary, a man of saintly life, has died.

The church itself was frequently the habitation of the anchorite.

And without paying any heed to the anchorite, he was on the point of hurrying off to meet her.

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