Lexicographical Neighbors of Ancress
Literary usage of Ancress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cell of Self-knowledge: Seven Early English Mystical Treatises Printed by Henry Pepwell, Edmund Garratt Gardner (1910)
"... BOOK OF MARGERY KEMPE, ancress OF LYNN SHE desired many times that her head
might be smitten ofi with an axe upon a block for the love of our Lord Jesu. ..."
2. A History of Lace by Bury Palliser (1869)
"... cloths and church linen are sent to be washed by the " Lady ancress," an
ecclesiastical washerwoman, who is paid by the churchwardens of St. Margaret's, ..."
3. A History of English Philanthropy: From the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Benjamin Kirkman Bray (1905)
"At Polesworth, eg, where there were fourteen nuns with an abbess and an ancress,
there were eight yeomen, seventeen hinds, and nine women servants. ..."
4. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1893)
"... made him his Chancellor and Archdeacon of Rochester, about 1537, giving him
his residence in the former ancress' Lodging at the church-door of the Black ..."
5. The Fyrst Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge Made by Andrew Borde, of by Andrew Boorde (1870)
"Boorde is told of a Spirit by an ancress at St Alban's. "The .119. Chapitre dothe
shewe of the Mare, and of the spirites named Incuban and ..."
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