Definitions for anchorites

anchorites an·cho·rite

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

Anchorites is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 1759 anagrams from letters in anchorites (acehinorst).

Definitions for anchorites

noun

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

Origin of anchorites

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 anchorites

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The church itself was frequently the habitation of the anchorite.

Word Value for anchorites
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