Anchorites is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ANCHORITES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• ANCHORITE, one who lives in seclusion, usually for religious reasons, also ANCHORET
• a religious recluse.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a person who lives in seclusion usually for religious reasons

Words related to ANCHORITES

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How to use ANCHORITES in a sentence

• They, too, constructed cells, like ancient anchorites, and cultivated the fields for bread.
• The first displays the solitary vigils, self-imposed penances, cruel temptations, firm endurance, and beatific visions of the anchorites in the Thebaid.
• The deserts were now filled with Christian anchorites, and among the chief tribes of the Arabs many proselytes had been made.
• Some of his more intimate companions maintained that his devotion had led him out into the desert to join the anchorites.
• It was here that he learned to condemn the ascetism of anchorites as pernicious or unprofitable to a militant Christian.
• There were travelling logicians, anchorites, ascetics, and solitary hermits.
• The use of a chaplet of beads for recording the number of prayers recited is of Eastern origin from the time of the Egyptian Anchorites.
• He avoided the error of mediaeval anchorites and mystics in setting an exaggerated value upon otherworldliness.

Similar words containing ANCHORITE without suffix s

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