anchorite

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synonyms for anchorite

On this page you'll find 46 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to anchorite, such as: recluse, ascetic, eremite, misanthrope, skeptic, and solitaire.

How to use anchorite in a sentence

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

    Mary Wollstonecraft | Elizabeth Robins Pennell
  • A description of this anchorite of the rocks will be given in a later chapter.

    Birds of the Rockies | Leander Sylvester Keyser
  • There rushed over him a horror that he could have succumbed so easily to the temptation that befalls every anchorite.

    Robert Annys: Poor Priest | Annie Nathan Meyer

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