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anchress

anchress

English

Alternative forms

anchoress

Noun

anchress ‎(plural anchresses)

(obsolete) An anchoress.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, ix:
  And hermits good and anchresses that dwell / Mew'd up in walls, and mumble on their beads.