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Definition of Anchorites
1. anchorite [n] - See also: anchorite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anchorites
Literary usage of Anchorites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Celtic Scotland: A History of Ancient Alban by William Forbes Skene (1877)
"... however, anchorites in favour of the anchorites. He says that at this time 'there
time. were many in the kingdom of the Scots, who, in different places, ..."
2. The History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1855)
"The Indian anchorites appear to have viewed their mortal existence as a period
of training for a final release from the body, which was the highest object ..."
3. History of the Christian Church by Wilhelm Ernst Möller (1902)
"The anchorites of the East. Sources: ATHANASII vita Antonii (Opp. ed. ...
Individual Christian anchorites (hermits) may as early as the third century, ..."
4. The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard by Charles Forbes Montalembert, Aurélien Courson (1872)
"The anchorites of the woods transformed into monks by the multitude which followed
them. — St. Laumer in Perche. — St. Magloire in Armorica and Jersey. ..."
5. A Visit to Monasteries in the Levant by Robert Curzon (1849)
"The Desert of Nitria is famous in the annals of monastic history as the first
place to which the anchorites, in the early ages of Christianity, retired from ..."
6. The Psalms in Human Life by Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1907)
"... Egyptian anchorites, Basil and monastic communities of the East, Athanasius
and the West, Jerome and Paula, Martin of Tours; the Psalms in ..."
7. Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal by Edward Robinson, Eli Smith (1841)
"The Saracens now withdrew, taking the captives with them, and killing eight other
anchorites in various places. Nilus and his companions in flight descended ..."
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