anchorite

Example Sentences

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Her subsequent eviction from the Beguines leads to her accepting the Bishop’s offer of sanctuary—as an anchorite, destined to live out her days in a tiny stone outcropping.

From Los Angeles Times

Her subsequent eviction from the Beguines leads to her accepting the Bishop’s offer of sanctuary — as an anchorite, destined to live out her days in a tiny stone outcropping.

From Los Angeles Times

Many writers are deskbound anchorites; Kurkov is a compulsively social animal with a deep bench of illustrious friends.

From New York Times

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.

From Washington Post

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

From New York Times