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anchorite
He then retired for a year to live with Ultan the life of an anchorite.
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His brother Naucratius was an anchorite, and inspired much of Basil's theological work.
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The author compares her life with that of an anchorite hermit.
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Anchorite Katherine Mann was caught up in the death of one of the Reformation's early martyrs.
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Long before the 1960s made a sacrament of elective poverty, Rosenfeld became an anchorite by choice.
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It was built for an anchorite, an extreme form of hermit.
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On becoming a tonsured monk, he adopted the name of an old Egyptian anchorite Bessarion, whose story he has related.
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In the Middle Ages anchorite was a common vocation.
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Sometimes, if the anchorite was walled up inside the cell, the bishop would put his seal upon the wall to stamp it with his authority.
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- One retired from society for religious reasons
- (anchoritic) characterized by ascetic solitude; "the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony"; "his hermitic existence"
- An anchorite or anchoret (female: anchoress; adj...
- (Gr. Anachoritis, "a departurer"). A solitary monk or hermit; an individual who withdraws from society and lives a solitary life of silence and prayer.
- Man living as an enclosed hermit; also used for a woman instead of anchoress
- One who renounces the world and lives both a solitary and secluded life of prayer, penitence and meditation.
- A hermit; a recluse (see eremite)
- Male hermit or religious recluse
- To lead the life of a hermit
