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Anchoret

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an·cho·rite  (ngk-rt) also an·cho·ret (-rt)
n.
A person who has retired into seclusion for religious reasons.
[Middle English, from Medieval Latin anchrta, from Late Latin anachrta, from Late Greek anakhrts, from anakhrein, to retire : ana-, ana- + khrein, to make room for, withdraw (from khros, place; see gh- in Indo-European roots).]
ancho·ritic (-rtk) adj.
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``If the reverend fathers,'' he said, ``loved good cheer and soft lodging, few miles of riding would carry them to the Priory of Brinxworth, where their quality could not but secure them the most honourable reception; 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.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
I have seen the first monks and anchorets, without crossing seas or centuries.
Essays, First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
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