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an·cho·ress  (ngkr-s)
n.
A woman who has retired into seclusion for religious reasons.
[Middle English anchoryse, ankres, from ancre, anchorite, from Old English ancra, from Old Irish anchara, from Late Latin anachrta; see anchorite.]


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Chapter 3, "The Contemplative and the Active Life," shows the beguines both in their contemplative mode as anchoresses and recluses and in their active mode as teachers, as cheap labor in the textile industry, and care givers for the living and the dead.
Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, ... by Jansen, Katherine L. / Renaissance Quarterly
Anyone who wishes to truly understand Julian must be conversant with a small body of literature, published more than a century before Julian's day, destined for anchoresses in England.
Mysticism and Language by Cunningham, Lawrence S. / Commonweal
Anyone who wishes to truly understand Julian must be conversant with a small body of literature, published more than a century before Julian's day, destined for anchoresses in England.
The Word in the Desert: Scripture and the Quest for Holiness in Early ... by Cunningham, Lawrence S. / Commonweal
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