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Webster 1828 Edition


Anchoret

AN'CHORET

, or AN'CHORITE,
Noun.
[Gr. to retire and to go. Written by some authors, anachoret.]
A hermit; a recluse; one who retires from society into a desert or solitary place, to avoid the temptations of the world and devote himself to religious duties. Also a monk, who, with the leave of the abbot, retires to a cave or cell, with an allowance from the monastery, to live in solitude.

Definition 2024


anchoret

anchoret

English

Noun

anchoret (plural anchorets)

  1. Alternative spelling of anchorite
    • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
      "... or if they preferred spending a penitential evening, they might turn down yonder wild glade, which would bring them to the hermitage of Copmanhurst, where a pious anchoret would make them sharers for the night of the shelter of his roof and the benefit of his prayers."