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Webster 1913 Edition
Anchoress
An′cho-ress
,Noun.
A female anchoret.
And there, a saintly
anchoress
, she dwelt. Wordsworth.
Webster 1828 Edition
Anchoress
AN'CHORESS
,Noun.
Definition 2024
anchoress
anchoress
English
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Noun
anchoress (plural anchoresses)
- A female anchorite. A woman who chooses to withdraw from the world to live a solitary life of prayer and contemplation.
- 2003, Yōko Wada, “A Genre of Ancrene Wisse”, in A Companion to Ancrene Wisse, DS Brewer, ISBN 9780859917629, page 39:
- … and advises the anchoresses to take on the basic religious vows …
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- (informal) an anchorwoman