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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: anchorite (0.01153 detik)
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: anchorite
anchorite
n : one retired from society for religious reasons [syn:
hermit]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Anchorite
Anchorite
\An"cho*rite\, n.
Same as
Anchoret.
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Anchoret
\An"cho*ret\, Anchorite
\An"cho*rite\, n. [F.
anachor[`e]te, L. anachoreta, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to go back,
retire; ? + ? to give place, retire, ? place; perh. akin to
Skr. h[=a] to leave. Cf.
Anchor a hermit.]
One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for
religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse. [Written by some
authors
anachoret.]
[1913 Webster]
Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's
or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of
conversing with mortals. --Boyle.
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