anchorite

Example Sentences

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Her subsequent eviction from the Beguines leads to her accepting the Bishop’s offer of sanctuary — as an anchorite, destined to live out her days in a tiny stone outcropping.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

She’d patterned the rooms after anchorite cells, bare stone and lines, so all you had to think about was the communion.

From Slate • Apr. 30, 2022

But Hardulph would not have been a hermit in the colloquial sense; he would have been an anchorite, meaning that he would have been anchored to the church and may have had disciples, Simons explained.

From Washington Post • Jul. 17, 2021

In the 1970s, commercial plywood caught Judd’s eye and he used it in a suite of boxy sculptures that look like a cross between shipping containers and anchorite cells.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2020

Sometimes I play chess with one of my colleagues, an anchorite like myself, who suffers from post-polio syndrome.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver