How To Use anchorite In A Sentence
- Officers in gay uniforms were scattered among the dark anchorites, who occupied one end of the table, while the _bourgeoisie_, with here and there a blue-caftaned peasant wedged among them, filled the other end. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864
- A cenobite is usually a monk in a monastery, as opposed to an anchorite, who is a monk living alone (also called an ‘eremite’ or ‘hermit’).
- The church has an anchorage or cell where a succession of anchorites (hermits) lived from 1383 until the reign of Henry VIII.
- Together with the others, it succeeded to a period of eremitism of solitary anchorites whose dwellings honeycombed the warm slopes that confront the Old Calabria
- Anchorites and anchoresses lived the religious life in the solitude of an ‘anchorage’, usually a small hut or ‘cell’ built against a church.
- ‘The anchorite is not offended primarily by the world,’ Ramfos insists; ‘he is offended by futility.’
- The first film's rather subdued acting could be excused by the fact that it had had to set the scene, give the background to the few stylites and anchorites who'd never heard of the stories.
- In this context, the work of Julian of Norwich, an English anchorite of the fourteenth century, is a particularly refreshing discovery.
- After all, she wasn't an anchorite - or was it an eremite - with her thoughts as her raison d'être. A DEAD LIBERTY
- Not that Vance Corliss was anybody's fool, nor that his had been an anchorite's existence; but that his upbringing, rather, had given his life a certain puritanical bent. CHAPTER 7
