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anchoret en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of anchorite.
   alt of anchorite
   • "... or if they preferred spending a penitential evening, they might turn down yonder wild glade, which would bring them to the hermitage of Copmanhurst, where a pious anchoret would make them sharers for the night of the shelter of his roof and the benefit of his prayers." 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

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Deriveds

anchoretism · anchoretic