Examples of 'anchorite' in a sentence
Meaning of "anchorite"
anchorite (noun) - A person who has chosen to live a solitary and ascetic life, typically for religious reasons
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- One who lives in isolation or seclusion, especially for religious reasons; hermit.
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If he were not an anchorite we would have been.
In her old age she becomes a nun and an anchorite.
The diet of an anchorite would not do for a farm labourer.
Is the concept of the anchorite.
A sadhu is an anchorite who pursues a sadhana or path of spiritual discipline.
The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not.
Applying the term anchorite to me is perhaps a juster comparison than you think.
Lived as an anchorite.
He became an anchorite before being elected abbot of Bath Abbey.
For a period of several centuries it was occupied by cloistered Anchorite women.
He spent his later years as an anchorite near Boston Yorkshire.
I met a mysterious woman who calls herself the Anchorite.
Pavly the Anchorite.
In her anchorite cave, she exercised the methods of Tibetan yogis.
Each of the three panels portrays a different Christian anchorite saint.
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Treat hesychast and anchorite as synonyms, making them interchangeable terms.
Before poker I am a true anchorite.
When the song was ended, the anchorite emphatically declared it a good one, and well sung.
Before launch she swapped names with HMS Anchorite.
Paul the Anchorite.
He was the founder of a monastery, and an anchorite.
However, she is the only Anchorite to identify as a woman.
One day near a stream covered with pink lotus, she noticed a young anchorite in prayer.
If he were not an anchorite we would have been . Whipped for it, or worse.
Billfrith the Anchorite.
Finally, my brethren, guard against doing wrong to any anchorite.
Sophronia of Taranto, venerated as an anchorite and martyr, is the only Italian.
In fact, until his death, Marx led a life of anchorite.
Eustathius of Sebaste, a prominent anchorite near Pontus, had mentored Basil.
You taught me a new word, anchorite.
Meanwhile, he was living as an anchorite near Warwick.
The name " Saint-Marcel " was chosen after a former anchorite and a former gate of the city.
