Anchoret

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of anchorite. alt-of, alternative

    ""... 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.""

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caloyerhermithermitlonermisanthroperecluse

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"It was not until worn out by the obstinacy of the anchoret that he consented to put the state and condition of his mistress to a certain trial."

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