MEANING
A person who withdraws from ordinary society for a solitary religious life, sometimes in an enclosed cell.
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- an anchorite’s cell
- a solitary anchorite
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The anchorite received visitors through a narrow opening in the wall.
A candle burned in the anchorite’s cell long after the church was dark.
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Primary category: gothic. Forms: Singular anchorite; plural anchorites. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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