anchoret

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a religious hermit or recluse; an anchorite

   The old anchoret lived walled within his cell beside the church.

A variant of anchorite, from Late Latin anachoreta, from Ancient Greek anakhoretes ('one who has retired'), from anakhorein ('to withdraw'), from ana- ('back') + khorein ('to give way, retire').

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