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anchorite

noun as in hermit

noun as in monk

noun as in nun

noun as in recluse

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Example Sentences

His philosophy had   made him neither an ascetic nor an anchorite.

A description of this anchorite of the rocks will be given in a later chapter.

There rushed over him a horror that he could have succumbed so easily to the temptation that befalls every anchorite.

You live the life of an anchorite here, never coming to the city, and I remain in retirement, scarcely ever going from the city.

The solitary anchorite was soon supplanted by the cœnobitic establishment, the monastery.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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