Anchorite (Noun)
Meaning
One retired from society for religious reasons.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The anchorite spent most of her days meditating in the small cave that had been her home for decades.
- The young monk's decision to become an anchorite was a radical departure from his previous life of social activism.
- The desert fathers of the early Christian era often chose the solitary life of an anchorite as a way to devote themselves to God.
- Her neighbors considered her an anchorite because she had shut herself up in her small apartment, surrounded by religious icons and refusing to speak to outsiders.
- After a lifetime of worldly pursuits, he built a small hermitage in the woods and took up the contemplative life of an anchorite.