Anchoret

Word ANCHORET
Character 8
Hyphenation an cho ret
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Anchoret"

What do we mean by anchoret?

One who lives in isolation or seclusion, especially for religious reasons.

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The word "anchoret" in example sentences

She is acting by me like an angel, and if she were to command me to turn anchoret, I know I ought to obey her. ' ❋ Unknown (2008)

As he sate thus, with his dark eye turned towards the scowling and blackening heaven, a horseman rode rapidly up to him, and stopping, as if to let his horse breathe for an instant, made a sort of obeisance to the anchoret, with an air betwixt effrontery and embarrassment. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Nothing would persuade me sooner that John was indeed an anchoret, than that which he himself saith, that he did not know Jesus, John 1: 31, whereas he was so very near akin to him. ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)

Our novice, fearing the danger of dissipation and relaxation, to which numerous communities are generally more exposed than others, chose not to live in the great monastery on the summit, but in a hermitage on the descent of the mountain, under the discipline of Martyrius, a holy ancient anchoret. ❋ Alban Butler (N/A)

Overcome by importunities, he admitted a holy anchoret named Moyses to live with him as his disciple. ❋ Alban Butler (N/A)

In 1528 he seems to have been succeeded by the anchoret Bernard. ❋ C. B. Black (N/A)

APOLLONIUS was a zealous holy anchoret, and was apprehended by the persecutors at Antinous in Egypt. ❋ Alban Butler (N/A)

The inhabitants flocked from the coast to hear the lessons of divine wisdom which the holy anchoret gave with a heavenly unction which penetrated their hearts. ❋ Alban Butler (N/A)

The room, in short, showed plainly the presence of a cultivated mind; and Nicholas, who, though unfamiliar with city-life, had received a capital intellectual training at the hands of a scholarly, but anchoret father, was delighted at the signs of culture in his new acquaintance. ❋ Various (N/A)

Each anchoret had here his separate cell, which he made his continued abode, except on Saturday and Sunday, when all assembled in one church to celebrate the divine mysteries, and partake of the holy communion. ❋ Alban Butler (N/A)

Wannamoisett and gave their plantation a homely Bible name, joined to their borders the tract of wilderness lying between them and the Bay line, they found the same whimsical anchoret snugly domiciled in his ❋ Various (N/A)

Of the death of Harold diuerse report diuerslie, in so much that Girald Cambrensis saith, that after king Harold had receiued manie wounds, and lost his left eie, he fled from the field vnto the citie of Westchester, and liued there long after, an holie life, as an anchoret in the cell of S. James, fast by S. Johns church, and there made a godlie end. ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)

Of the outrageous insolence of the Seven Penitents he omits nothing but their sincerity; of the enlightened simplicity of the anchoret philosophers he retains nothing but their selfishness; of the intellectual influence of the Gooroo pontiffs he covets nothing but their dissimulation. ❋ Various (N/A)

Not to be confounded with the foregoing are (2) St. Ethelwold, monk of Ripon, anchoret at Lindisfarne, d. about 720; feast kept 23 March; and (3) St. Ethelwold, Abbot of Melrose, Bishop of Lindisfarne, d. c. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

He was at this time evidently leading the life of an anchoret. ❋ Of Clairvaux Bernard (1899)

The eremites, or desert dweller, lives either in retreat as an anchoret, or solitary, monachos, whence "monk;" or in common with others, in a koinobion, as a ❋ Unknown (1895)

The entry concluded with a few bitter remarks: _ "So farewell to my holy anchoret; and if I cannot speed him with a leprosie as one Elisha did his servant, yet at least he went out from my presence with a face as white as snow." ❋ John Meade Falkner (1895)

Vaux, as one who felt some pain from a sarcasm which yet he could not resent --- then turned him calmly, and somewhat scornfully to the anchoret, as he replied --- ` ` Thou hast found a fair bevy of daughters, reverend father, to one who hath been but few months married; but since I must put them from my roof, it were but like a father, to provide them with suitable matches. ❋ Unknown (1894)

We monks pray by day, but the anchoret prays by night. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)

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