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anchoret |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Anchoret \An"cho*ret\, Anchorite \An"cho*rite\, n. [F. anachor[`e]te, L. anachoreta fr Gr ?, fr ? to go back retire; ? + ? to give place retire, ? place perh. akin to Skr. h[=a] to leave Cf {Anchor} a hermit.] One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse. [Written by some authors {anachoret}.] Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. --Boyle.
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