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anchorite

[ ang-kuh-rahyt ]

noun

  1. a person who has retired to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion; hermit.


anchorite

/ ˈæŋəˌɪ /

noun

  1. a person who lives in seclusion, esp a religious recluse; hermit
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈԳǰ, noun:feminine
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ··· [ang-k, uh, -, rit, -ik], adjective
  • c·i·· adverb
  • ··· [ang, -k, uh, -rahy-tiz-, uh, m], noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of anchorite1

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English anc(h)orite, anachorite, ancorite, conflation of Middle English ancre (from Old English ancra, ancer ) and Old French anacorite or Late Latin anachōrīta, Բōŧٲ, from Late Greek Բōŧḗs, agent noun derivative of Բōî “to withdraw” + agent suffix
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of anchorite1

C15: from Medieval Latin Գǰīٲ, from Late Latin Բōŧٲ, from Greek Բōŧŧ, from Բō𾱲 to retire, withdraw, from ō a space
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Many writers are deskbound anchorites; Kurkov is a compulsively social animal with a deep bench of illustrious friends.

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But Hardulph would not have been a hermit in the colloquial sense; he would have been an anchorite, meaning that he would have been anchored to the church and may have had disciples, Simons explained.

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We see Moore and her mother living together in Greenwich Village “like anchorites.”

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They’ve just been walled in, closed off, “like those anchorites” — medieval ascetics — “who used to build themselves into the walls of churches and see insane, terrifying visions and write about them.”

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In the 1970s, commercial plywood caught Judd’s eye and he used it in a suite of boxy sculptures that look like a cross between shipping containers and anchorite cells.

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