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Definition of Anchorite
1. Noun. One retired from society for religious reasons.
Definition of Anchorite
1. n. Same as Anchoret.
Definition of Anchorite
1. Noun. One who lives in isolation or seclusion, especially for religious reasons. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anchorite
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anchorite
Literary usage of Anchorite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Celtic Scotland: A History of Ancient Alban by William Forbes Skene (1877)
"i6 Here then we have an anchorite who was abbot from 727 to 752 during the tenure
of the same II 737 Bass ..."
2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1800)
"... abhorre the sex, as that same melancholy >' Duke ot Muscovy, that was instantly
sick, if he came but in sight of them : and that - anchorite, that fell ..."
3. Remarkable Providences Illustrative of the Earlier Days of American Colonisation by Increase Mather (1890)
"Thus lived that insu- lary anchorite for about two years, till at last, having
espied a Dutch vessel, he held a rag of his shirt upon the top of a stick ..."
4. The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard by Charles Forbes Montalembert, Aurélien Courson (1872)
"What Guthlac had been before he became an anchorite. — His solitary life resembles
those of some of the most illustrious saints in the monastic order. ..."
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